On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Markus E. Testorf wrote:
I did a few test simulations but I am still not quite sure whether sources (e.g. a line source for simulating a plane wave) are transparent or not. Obviously, I do not want to have scattered field components which originate from interactions of the backscattered field with the source.
Sources in Meep are simply currents introduced into the cell, so yes they are transparent.
After reading the meep documentation, I assume there is no way at present to setup a total field/scattered field closed boundary plane wave source as described in Taflove's book!?
There is no built-in support for this currently (in my own work I rarely need incident plane waves except in cases with periodic boundaries where it is easy). In principle this should be possible by using a "box" of appropriately-chosen E and H current sources, but that requires some attention to detail.
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