That's try to check math/eqaution details about how diffraction is calculated for ray-tracing.

Here is some key points for taking back:

• The ray-tracing eqaution for grating and any phase profile are same.
  
  
  
  • They are all based on the principle that projected wave vector should be continuous at material boundaries.
  
  
  
  


• The word 'conical diffraction' is explained.


• The 'phase' in OpticStudio mainly describes 'periodicity'.


• These diffraction calculation supports multiple-wavelength
  
  
  
  • This is true for all diffractive surfaces like: Binary 2, Zernike Standard Phase, Grid Phase, Diffraction Grating, Elliptical Grating, ... etc.
  
  
  • For Physical Optics Propagaion (POP) and metalens, the support to multi-wavelength for phase surfaces may be no longer true, but we don't discuss much here.