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Calculating Absorption #93
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The propagation of light goes from top to bottom. Forward means the projection of the PoyntingFlux in the "forward" direction, i.e. downwards. Backwards is in the upward direction. In other words, forward refers to transmitted flux and backwards to reflected flux. The net flux is the sum of both. The difference between the net flux at two points is the absorption. Hence to compute the absorption in Layer 2, you need to compute: I suggest to have a look at Victor's paper on S4. http://web.stanford.edu/group/fan/publication/Liu_ComputerPhysicsCommunications_183_2233_2012.pdf Hope you found this helpful. José.
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Thanks, José, it helped a lot! |
Hello everyone,
I'm sorry in advance for such a naive question, but I just began using the software and I'm kinda lost with it.
My question is: how do I obtain the absorption of a certain layer in a multi layered structure, from the given poyting vectors for each layer? Is there a way of obtaining this by another means than the poynting vectors?
Let's say, for example, I have a structure like this:
Layer 1 -----------------------------------
...... -----------------------------------
Layer 2
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Layer 3
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S4 provides me the backward and forward fluxes for each layer using GetPoyntingFlux. How do I calculate the absorption, say, in layer 2, using these fluxes?
One more question: what exactly these fluxes represent? the forward flux describes what comes in at the beginning of the layer (let's say, for layer 2, at the interface between the bottom of layer 1 and top of layer 1) or at its end (bottom of layer 2 and top of layer 3)? Same question for the backward fluxes?
I don't seem to undestand the dynamics of these fluxes. If anyone could help, I would appreciate.
Thanks in advance.
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