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In some cases, perfectly marched layers (PML) with quartic conductor p
rofiles are superior to the traditional quadratic gradations. This PML
boundary condition can be applied to gratings; it does not suffer fro
m Fabry-Perot fringes and is not swamped by noise, unlike the absorbin
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