[MPB-discuss] Epsilon input file with anisotropic media

2011-11-17 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hi everyone I've been goofing around with MPB for some days and I found it very useful by using the epsilon-input-file variable in order to avoid the time consuming generation of the geometric object generations. It's not that it takes too long it's just that I run several simulations with minute

Re: [MPB-discuss] Specifying the dielectric constant for every pixel

2012-01-19 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
I think the closest thing (or maybe the easiest) for doing that is changing the value of the variable called epsilon-input-file with the following instruction (set! epsilon-input-file "SomeHDF5FileName"). With this you can specify the default material, and thus the matrix you are referring by gener

[MPB-discuss] Pixelized epsilon output file

2012-04-19 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
I'm trying to get a 2D grid where I can set/reset each pixel to air/dielectric values. I tried using a fixed input-epsilon-file but I need to use an isotropic material, which is not supported by such option. I tried by making an object list of blocks corresponding to the "on" pixels, but I can't ge

Re: [MPB-discuss] Band structure for cubic lattice with TE/TM polarization from Gamma to X point

2012-04-21 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
I think you should use (run-te) and (run-tm) for the TE and the TM polarization respectively. 2012/4/21 Parikshit Moitra : > Hi all > > Can anybody tell me which run-function I should use to calculate the band > structure of a dielectric cube in a cubic lattice from gamma to X point in > TE and TM

[MPB-discuss] MPB manteinance

2012-06-17 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hello The last couple of days I've been struggling with a Cygwin installation of MPB. The problem was that I also installed Octave from the Cygwin repository and this involved installing newer versions of the FFTW libraries and HDF5 support. The problem is that MPB has not been updated to this new

[MPB-discuss] Difference beetween methods

2012-08-10 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hello I'm trying to reproduce a paper on bandgaps for 2D lattices. These authors report using a FEM method. I understand this approach is different from the one that MPB uses. And so are the results. I get very similar in shape dispersion diagrams but the bandgaps reported by them are completely d

Re: [MPB-discuss] error: guile-config is broken

2013-02-04 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hi If you're using Ubuntu, why don't you install the package with 'apt-get install mpb'? Either way it seem to me that you should try to reinstall guile or check the installation issues in the MPB wiki http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/MPB_Installation. Best regards. 2013/2/4 Francisco Ben

Re: [MPB-discuss] problem in compiling mpb 1.5

2014-05-07 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hi I would recommend to check if the configure script finds the HDF5 library because when it doesn't the compiling process succeds but with limited functionality. That might be the problem Rafael 2014-05-07 0:13 GMT-05:00 Ehsan Saei : > Dear community, > > I tried to install mpb 1.5 but when I

Re: [MPB-discuss] swg

2014-11-12 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Hi, As far as I know MPB will solve the dispersion curves and the group velocities when given a propagation direction (k-point) and a structure, assuming the latter is periodical. So, you'll may end up simulating a lattice of several segmented waveguides but if they are separated enough there shou

Re: [MPB-discuss] Problem in installation of MPB

2015-08-09 Thread Rafael Gonzalez
Ubuntu is not a requisite to install MPB. You can use MPB on Windows via Cygwin (http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/MPB_download). Also, someone found the way to compile the source code to a Windows executable to avoid using Cygwin (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~victorl/code/mpb.html). If you