{"id":327338,"date":"2023-12-11T10:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/far-field-complex-electric-field-amplitude\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:40:34","slug":"far-field-complex-electric-field-amplitude","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/far-field-complex-electric-field-amplitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-field complex electric field amplitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to calculate the complex electric field of the far field, which means that besides the amplitude distribution, I also want to analyze the phase\/wavefront information.<br \/>However, I only know one way to calculate the electric field amplitude: E = sqrt(abs(Ex)^2+abs(Ey)^2+abs(Ez)^2). But the complex values are not preserved anymore.<br \/>Could someone kindly teach me how to calculate the complex electric field amplitude using Ex, Ey, and Ez? Thanks a lot in advance!<br \/>P.S. Ex, Ey, and Ez are complex values from a monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-327338","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-far-field-1","topic-tag-LumericalFDTD-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["271422","2796","290264"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.218.223"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1717"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["327338"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["2796","271422","290264"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["11"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["353890"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["353890"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-02-26 17:19:03"]},"test":"c-mafkp-uni-hannover-de"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/327338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/327338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}