Re: [MPB-discuss] Difference beetween methods (Rafael Gonzalez) and Re: Difference beetween methods (Manish Kumar)

2012-09-01 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Manish Kumar wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Thank you for your reply. > It does make sense and could be the possible reason of why the calculated > results is not matching. > > In the meanwhile I'm not sure if actually the paper by M. Notomi, "Theory of > light propagatio

Re: [MPB-discuss] Difference beetween methods (Rafael Gonzalez) and Re: Difference beetween methods (Manish Kumar)

2012-08-13 Thread Sebastian Schulz
Hello, my comments are to both of you. When using 2D calculations a lot of people apply an effective index method, to use a 2D calculation to model a final 3D structure. In this case the index that is being use for the high index material is not the refractive index itself, but depends on the