{"id":378002,"date":"2024-08-12T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/378002\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:15:29","slug":"378002","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/378002\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: scattering calculation with gaussian beam in FDTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ok, thanks.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following up on the intensity question, I&rsquo;m getting the power, intensity and area of my gaussian source using the method posted here https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360034925313-sourcepower-Script-command.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, i got power =4*intensity*area. This factor appears to be a constant of&nbsp; my other numerical parameters including the monitor size and source size. I&rsquo;m using anti-sym and sym boundary conditions. But my understanding is that those are accounted for in the sourcepower and sourceintensity functions. Is this factor expected? if not, how do i fix it?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-378002","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/378002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/378002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378004,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/378002\/revisions\/378004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}