Optical arrangement, littrow grating for use in an optical arrangement and also use of a littrow grating

Abstract

An optical arrangement has a light source which emits coherent light of a specific wavelength. Further provided is an optical Littrow grating, arranged at a specific Littrow angle θL. It has a multiplicity of parallel diffraction structures following one another periodically at an interval in each case of one specific grating period and arranged on a substrate predetermining a base area. The light wavelength, the grating period and the Littrow angle θL are tuned to one another in such a way that the grating is used in one of the largest diffraction orders m for light reflected back at the Littrow angle θL, which still fulfils the condition: (2(m+1)/m−1) sin (θL)≧1 An optical arrangement of this kind has an increased reflection efficiency.

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