Dear Meep users, I did a simple two dimensional computation recently where I just wanted to check Meeps result on transmission through a dielectric slab. So I filled the while computational cell with a dielectric of eps = 1 in one case and 2.5 in one case. I excited with a Gaussian plane wave puls in one end of my (2d) cell and put a flux plane in the other end. Then I computed the quote of the two transmitted pulses from the flux-plane in the two cases and expected the transmission in the two cases to be exactly the same (the quote to be ==1).
However I found this quote to be related via the refractive index of the materials. This was a bit surprising to me, since I believed those computations to be powers (Poynting vectors). So it seems to be the case here that different amounts of energy enters from the source depending of in what dielectric it sits. How can I understand this? Best Regards, Robert Rehammar -- Robert Rehammar PhD-Student Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology Department of Physics, Göteborg University SE-421 96 Göteborg Sweden Tel +46 (0)31 772 3156 Fax +46 (0)31 416 984 Cel +46 (0)738 328834 Web fy.chalmers.se/~e9ravn _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
