Rigorous coupled-wave analysis

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Rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA), also known as Fourier modal method (FMM),^[1] is a semi-analytical method in computational electromagnetics that is most typically applied to solve scattering from periodic dielectric structures. It is a Fourier-space method so devices and fields are represented as a sum of spatial harmonics.