ZBFWRITE

Writes electric field and beam property data arrays to a ZBF file.

Syntax:

ZBFWRITE filename, beamname, propertyname

Discussion:

This keyword requires the name of the ZBF file and the name of two arrays defined by a previous call to DECLARE. The beamname must be a 3 dimensional array, of minimum size (nx, ny, 2) for an unpolarized beam and minimum size (nx, ny, 4) for a polarized beam. The propertyname array must be a one dimensional array of minimum size 14.

The following beam data must be placed in the specified propertyname array: nx, ny, dx, dy, waist_x, waist_y, position_x, position_y, rayleigh_x, rayleigh_y, wavelength (in lens units), total power, peak irradiance (power per area), the is_polarized flag (0 for no, 1 for yes), and the media index; the values are placed in array positions 1 through 15. The electric field data must be placed in the beamname array. The third dimension of the beamname array is 1 for Ex Real, 2 for Ex Imaginary, and if the beam is polarized, 3 for Ey Real, and 4 for Ey Imaginary.