IBM Release 1.93 manual Parameters file orientation xlo xhi ylo yhi zlo zhi phase indexn

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LIST

Stores a list of field values as ASCII floating point numbers, suitable

 

for reading into a spreadsheet or a plotting program such as

 

GNUPLOT. The row-column arrangement of a 3-dimensional list

 

file depends on the value of orientation. Coordinate axes are always

 

taken in cyclic order, with the leftmost position in the first line

 

corresponding to the minimum of all coordinates; in a 2-D list in XY

 

orientation (perpendicular to Z), columns correspond to the x

 

coordinate and rows to the y coordinate. In YZ orientation, y goes

 

across columns and z goes down rows, and in ZX orientation, z

 

goes across columns and x down rows. (ZY is the same as YZ, and

 

XZ is the same as ZX--cyclic order is always preserved.) In a three-

 

dimensional list, the perpendicular variable is most slowly varying.

 

For example, in XY orientation, a 3-D list file with M planes (Z) N

 

rows (Y) and P columns (X) would have list N rows for the first

 

plane, another N for the second plane, and so on. The file format is

 

as follows, with integer indices i, j, and k corresponding to

 

coordinates x, y, and z.

 

Parameters: variable file orientation xlo xhi ylo yhi zlo zhi phase indexn

 

kmin kmax jmin jmax imin imax

 

lambda indexN dz dy dx

 

coordinates arrangement

 

(real, imag) (real, imag) (real, imag)....

 

(real, imag) (real, imag) (real, imag)....

 

...

 

(real, imag) (real, imag) (real, imag)....

 

The value of coordinates can be polar or rectangular, and arrangement

 

can be normal or FFT.

MODEFILE

A variation on the LIST command, for producing 2-D list files of Ex,

 

Ey, and Ez The appropriate file name additions are supplied

 

automatically.

 

Parameters: file orientation xlo xhi ylo yhi zlo zhi phase indexn

MODEMATCH

Computes the far-field pattern of the simulated fields, taken from

 

the given plane, and compares it with the analytically computed

 

pupil function requested. It returns the normalized overlap integral

 

of the two across the (u, v) plane. This is a complicated way of

 

saying that MODEMATCH returns the coupling efficiency from the

 

simulated plane to a receiver whose sensitivity pattern matches the

 

given pupil function, e.g. a fibre. Known pupil functions at present

 

are GAUSSIAN, AIRY, FLATTOP, and BESSJ0. The refractive index

 

is taken to be the real part of the index at the centre of the given

 

plane, as in the FARFIELD order.

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