AmosEgel

Dear Maxim! As you know, I also had to find a way how to treat cross sections for systems involving planarly layered media in a meaningful way during the development...

P.S.: I forgot to mention that with the concept of extinction as implemented in SMUTHI, negative extinction can occur when the layer absorption is reduced by a particle. For example,...

This would be a useful addition. Your help is more than welcome - if you want to do it, we will give you all the support you need.

Hi Melowa! Unfortunately, the case of a surrounding medium with absorption is currently not implemented. This is why the code complains when you try to define a complex refractive index....

Maybe we should leave it open such that people who obtain the same error can see this.

So, a dependent variable would not work? I assume the above link is relevant for lookups and stuff that is expensive to evaluate. But here, this is not the case.

Yet another way is a `set` method for `polarization`. It looks easier than `processTunedPropertiesImpl`

Well, I am still not familiar with the system objects. But in the "old" way you would either have `omega`, `k_medium` and `k_particle` as dependent variables with a get method,...

Why saving celes_tables? I assume they cost relatively much disc space, and it doesn't take much time to compute them once.

Oh, right - the scattered field coefficients are in the `celes_tables`. Yes, saving between the iterations and then resuming a cancelled simulation is a good idea and should be possible.