try switching off the "metal" behaviour by e.g. imposing a purely real dielectric constant on your sphere, so that it acts as a pure scatterer, record the field in a few points, then redo the simulation with a metal sphere and see what changes
just a guess br ________________________________________ From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of meep-discuss-requ...@ab-initio.mit.edu [meep-discuss-requ...@ab-initio.mit.edu] Sent: 21 March 2011 17:00 To: meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu Subject: meep-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 13 Send meep-discuss mailing list submissions to meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to meep-discuss-requ...@ab-initio.mit.edu You can reach the person managing the list at meep-discuss-ow...@ab-initio.mit.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of meep-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Problem with the Near Field Enhancement (Aaron Abbott) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:01:01 +0100 From: Aaron Abbott <aaron_abb...@hotmail.com> Subject: [Meep-discuss] Problem with the Near Field Enhancement To: <meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu> Message-ID: <blu159-w551d9d41bf7cbd5709e835ed...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear MEEP users, I am trying to calculate the near field enhancement of a gold nanosphere. At the moment i only calculated the enhancement at a fixed wavelength using a continuous source. Now i want to calculate the enhancement at a broadband wavelength. I don't know about the next steps after hitting a sphere with a broadband pulse. How should i know that which value of the enhancement corresponds to which wavelength?I also read on the group that i should take a 4D Fourier transform. Can somebody tell me how should i perform a 4D Fourier transform? Thanks in advance. BR,Aaron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ab-initio.mit.edu/pipermail/meep-discuss/attachments/20110321/951df546/attachment.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss End of meep-discuss Digest, Vol 61, Issue 13 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss