On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:05:57 -0800, Alex Swinton McLeod <[email protected]> wrote: > Giovanni, > > It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are simply interested > in an integrated flux quantity e.g. total scattered flux, then all the > tools you need are already built into meep, as you quote from the > tutorial. Strictly speaking, this is sufficient to calculate > scattering and absorption cross sections. In fact, I haven't actually > tried to cook up scheme code to do this directly for an example > geometry, but it shouldn't be too difficult! > > On the other hand, if you're interested in looking at spatially- > resolved spectra (e.g. electric field as a function of (omega, x, y, > z)) you'll have to (to my knowledge) crank these out the way I > described, by manually loading and manipulating data saved in a > collection of H5 files. While this "manual" method is less > straightforward, it allows maximum flexibility in data analysis. One > of the coolest applications of this method is computing radiation > patterns using the scattered field spectra. > > Good luck, > Alex >
Hi, thanks to you and prof. Johnson for the answer - I had a very vague suspicion that the point was what you said (there was already a reference to this thing in the first post of yours I quoted). BUt thanks for spelling it out. Giovanni -- ================================================ Giovanni Piredda Postdoc - AK Hartschuh Phone: ++49 - (0) 89/2180-77601 Fax.: ++49 – (0) 89/2180-77188 Room: E2.062 ---------------------------------------- Message sent by Cup Webmail (Roundcube) _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
