On 20/09/2007, John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a problem with the integration of the electric field. I'm > trying to calculate the effective area of an optical fiber. This is > defined as: > > ( integral ( abs(E)^2 ) )^2 > ---------------------------------- > integral ( abs(E)^4 ) > > where the integrals are over the area in the x-y plane and the E > fields are the z component. > > When I do this I get values which are wrong by about a factor of > 2-2.5.
I must apologize for creating noise again on this list. The problem was with my analytic calculation and not with MPB! Best regards, John Travers _______________________________________________ mpb-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mpb-discuss
