Re: [Meep-discuss] enhancement of the spontaneous emission

2011-05-25 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Waldemar, If you post your scheme file, we can have a look at it. Best regards, Milan -Original Message- From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Waldemar Sent: woensdag 25 mei 2011 12:58 To: meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit

Re: [Meep-discuss] Converting dispersive material parameters

2011-03-02 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Badar, I have tried this as well in the past, but I would just redo the fit if I were you...much easier... You can always use the parameters you have as an initial guess. I have posted something on the forum some time ago, about how you can verify your fit in MEEP. Best regards, Milan From

Re: [Meep-discuss] Symmetry in 2D TM polarization

2011-02-22 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Did you set the correct phase for symmetry? Look at the manual... As a starter you could try a Hz source with phase -1 for the symmetry plane... Milan From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of qwer1304 Sent: dinsdag 22 februari 2011

Re: [Meep-discuss] normalization

2011-01-24 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Paolo, It’s still not completely clear to me, but I’m gonna take a gamble . First of all, see my first email (with link to paper). What I think you’re calculating is the spontaneous emission enhancement factor. By putting a source inside a resonant cavity, you limit the number of modes to whi

Re: [Meep-discuss] normalization

2011-01-18 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
otti [mailto:bnm...@yahoo.it] Sent: dinsdag 18 januari 2011 10:19 To: Marell, M.J.H. Subject: Re: [Meep-discuss] normalization Dear Marell, thank you for your response. Your suggestion it is not really clear to me: the predefined flux region should perform the same job you are suggesting me, isn&

Re: [Meep-discuss] normalization

2011-01-17 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Paolo, Your simulation looks similar to the technique used for calculating the emission enhancement of an emitter inside a cavity (see: Hwang, Phys. Rev. B, vol 60, 1999 ). I’m not sure what the desired result of your experiment is. If it is to get the resonant frequency and Q-factor…use harm

[Meep-discuss] Frequency domain solver

2011-01-11 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, I was wondering if anybody managed to get some experience with the frequency domain solver in MEEP. I succeeded in getting my simulations up and running, but so far they all ended in "CONVERGENCE FAILLURE". I don't know if there's any relevance to my problem, but if I output my fi

Re: [Meep-discuss] How to use the k-point parameter

2010-12-30 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Dear Kan, You can still consider your waveguide as an infinite repetition of unit-cells/slices, even although you don't see any periodic variation. I believe this is called translational symmetry (see "Molding the flow of light, chap 3, page 30). So you can still use this technique to obtain a

Re: [Meep-discuss] Using silver

2010-12-06 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
I'm pretty sure you'd have to excite your structure with an Hz source to see a surface effect. Milan From: Cícero Julião [mailto:juliaojun...@gmail.com] Sent: maandag 6 december 2010 15:00 To: Marell, M.J.H. Subject: Re: [Meep-discuss] Using silver Yes, 'convert ez-*.png ef

Re: [Meep-discuss] Using silver

2010-12-06 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Did you check the individual PNG files? If they are OK, I wouldn't worry too much. And what did you use to convert the PNG files to GIF? 'convert ez-*.png efield.gif' From: Cícero Julião [mailto:juliaojun...@gmail.com] Sent: maandag 6 december 2010 14:43 To: Marell, M.J.H. Sub

Re: [Meep-discuss] Using silver

2010-12-06 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
I can't reproduce the effect, I only see a field left of the cylinder. Can you post a screenshot or the animated GIF? What version of MEEP are you using? Milan From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Cícero Julião Sent: maandag 6

Re: [Meep-discuss] Verification of material (Au) dispersion

2010-12-03 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
If I’m not mistaking , this only works for dispersive media of which the real part is positive, because for negative epsilon you just get exponential decay There is way to verify your material: http://www.mail-archive.com/meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu/msg03527.html Best regards, Milan From

[Meep-discuss] Electric field intensity

2010-11-17 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, I posted this question some time ago, but the issue has become a bit more urgent since I'm now constantly running out of memory when I try to calculate |E|^2 from the individual components in Matlab. Can anybody help me out (using denergy is no option for me)? I'd like to output

Re: [Meep-discuss] ,About cylinder of geometric-object.

2010-11-03 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
My best guess is, your source is not inside the computational space Send your scheme file! Milan -Original Message- From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of ??? Sent: dinsdag 2 november 2010 9:12 To: meep-discuss@ab-initio

Re: [Meep-discuss] How to find average energy density?

2010-10-14 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
dir.com/ml/science.electromagnetism.meep.general/2006-05/msg00010.html Best regards, Milan -Original Message- From: Serge Solntsev [mailto:suns...@gmail.com] Sent: donderdag 14 oktober 2010 17:04 To: Marell, M.J.H. Subject: Re: [Meep-discuss] How to find average energy density? Hi Milan, Tha

Re: [Meep-discuss] How to find average energy density?

2010-10-14 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Serge, I'm working on a similar problem, I have a resonant cavity... What I do is, I excite the cavity with a pulse and wait for the fields to settle down. As soon as the fields have settled down, I know extract Q factor of my cavity plus the |E|^2 field distribution. R. Loudon's paper back

[Meep-discuss] Electric field intensity

2010-10-14 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, I'd like to output the electric field intensity (|E|^2) from a 3D simulation. I wrote the following function: (define (eSquared r ex ey ez) (+ (* (magnitude ex) (magnitude ex)) (* (magnitude ey) (magnitude ey)) (* (magnitude ez) (magnitude ez (define (output-efield2) (outpu

Re: [Meep-discuss] Dispersive PMLs

2010-10-13 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
That's not what the release notes say about the PML... http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_release_notes Best regards, Milan From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ahmed, Sardar Badar Munir 43 Sent: woensdag 13 oktobe

Re: [Meep-discuss] Unit transformation of dispersion parameters

2010-08-04 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, Wen-Yu, I have been confused by the explanation of the website myself. But from what I have found, I feel that you can just fit the following equation to your data: einf+(sigma*omega^2)/(omega^2-f^2-i*gamma*f) While fitting, I use the frequency definition from the “Meep Introducti

[Meep-discuss] Theoretical question about banddiagram

2010-04-28 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, I have theoretical question about some results that I obtained on metallic waveguides (M-I-M). I used MEEP to make a banddiagram of such a waveguide and the results I get look credible. I see no cut-off for the fundamental TM mode etc. etc... Now what I'm wondering about, the band

Re: [Meep-discuss] Debian package

2010-03-15 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi Alexander, Just replace (delta-epsilon ...) with (sigma ...). That's all. Best regards, Milan -Original Message- From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Alexander Slesarev Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:26 AM To: m

Re: [Meep-discuss] Parameter sweep in MEEP (scheme interface)

2010-02-16 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
_ From: Mischa Megens [mailto:meg...@eecs.berkeley.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 7:26 PM To: Marell, M.J.H. Subject: Re: [Meep-discuss] Parameter sweep in MEEP (scheme interface) Hi Milan, Yes there are several possibilities. In Scheme, you could use (do ...), or make

[Meep-discuss] Parameter sweep in MEEP (scheme interface)

2010-02-16 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hello everybody, Does anyone know if it is possible to sweep a certain parameter in MEEP, or do some kind of loop, using the scheme interface. I'd like to make some kind of 3D trapezoid shape by placing a lot of rectangles with decreasing size on top of eachother. Best regards, Milan Marell

Re: [Meep-discuss] PML problems with dispersive materials

2009-12-23 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Something that works well for me, is surrounding my actual structure with a material with an epsilon value considerably higher than the highest epsilon used in my structure of interest (I use epsilon 36). For example: (make block (center 0 0) (size infinity

Re: [Meep-discuss] PML problems with dispersive materials

2009-12-15 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
I havent looked at your attached code yet, so I can't tell if it's due to a mistake in your code... But I still experience problems with dispersive materials inside the PML as well. Though my model satisfies the 'stability criterion' given on the Wiki. Best regards, Milan Marell -Origina

[Meep-discuss] Propagation loss via unit cell

2009-12-03 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Dear all, Does anybody know if it is possible make an accurate estimation of propagation loss in a (simple rectangular) lossy waveguide by means of a unitcell simulation & periodic boundary conditions? That is, without simulating a very long waveguide and placing two flux planes at a significan

[Meep-discuss] Material dispersion

2009-10-28 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, Just a short question about specifying the material dispersion in MEEP... I got a bit confused by the manual. On the material dispersion page of the manual, there are two equations: - One as a function of omega and gamma - And one as a function frequency and gam

Re: [Meep-discuss] Meep not working anymore

2009-07-15 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
ailto:meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven G. Johnson Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:24 PM To: MEEP Discuss Subject: Re: [Meep-discuss] Meep not working anymore On Jul 13, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Marell, M.J.H. wrote: > After installing an update on my Debian (Squeeze/Testing) sys

[Meep-discuss] Meep not working anymore

2009-07-13 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, After installing an update on my Debian (Squeeze/Testing) system, MEEP doesn't work anymore. I tried reinstalling everything (even Debian) from scratch, but I cant get it to work. All my simulations give the error: ERROR: In procedure vector-ref: ERROR: Wrong type

Re: [Meep-discuss] problem after Debian (squeeze) update

2009-05-26 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
I have the same problem on my home laptop. Entering the simulation line by line in the prompt doesn’t work. Removing all packages and depencies related to MEEP and reinstalling everything doesn’t work either Best regards, Milan From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-discu

Re: [Meep-discuss] is there any max resolution limit ?

2009-05-04 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Dear Maciej, Have you figured what is wrong with your simulation? It's difficult to tell what is wrong without the scheme file, but... can't you choose a different length scale instead of setting the resolution to a very high value? Best regards, Milan

Re: [Meep-discuss] How to create a planewave?

2009-05-04 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Can you post your scheme/C++ file? Or can you post a screenshot of the fields? Sounds like there's something wrong with your metal objects and the PML, but there's no way to tell for sure without more information... Best regards, Milan From: meep-discuss-boun...@ab-initio.mit.edu [mailto:meep-

[Meep-discuss] How to create a planewave?

2009-05-04 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Can you post your scheme/C++ file? Or can you post a screenshot of the fields? Sounds like there's something wrong with your metal objects and the PML, but there's no way to tell for sure without more information... Best regards, Milan ___ meep-discuss

Re: [Meep-discuss] Reflection and transmission in metallic structures

2009-05-01 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Based on my experience, if we extend metallic waveguide into PML, the result will be unstable. PML seems not working well with the dispersive material, especially when large portion of the dispersive material overlap with PML. On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Marell, M.J.H. wrote:When perfo

[Meep-discuss] Reflection and transmission in metallic structures

2009-04-23 Thread Marell, M.J.H.
Hi everybody, I realize more people have encountered this problem before, but I haven't been able to find a good solution yet. When performing simulations on metallic waveguides, the waveguides have to be terminated before they enter the PML. Termination of the metallic waveguides before the P