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== EM.Illumina Features at a Glance ==
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=== Structure Definition ===
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Metal (PEC) solids and surfaces in free space</li>
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PMC and impedance surfaces in free space</li>
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Import STL CAD files as native polymesh structures</li>
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Huygens blocks imported from full-wave modules</li>
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=== Sources ===
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Short dipoles</li>
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Import previously generated wire mesh solution as collection of short dipoles</li>
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Plane wave excitation with linear and circular polarizations</li>
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Multi-ray excitation capability (ray data imported from [[Propagation Module]] or external files)</li>
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Huygens sources imported from PO or other modules with arbitrary rotation and array configuration</li>
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=== Mesh Generation ===
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Surface triangular mesh with control over tessellation parameters</li>
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Local mesh editing of polymesh objects</li>
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=== Physical Optics Simulation ===
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Physical Optics solution of metal scatterers and impedance surfaces</li>
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Conventional Geometrical Optics - Physical Optics (GOPO) solver</li>
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Novel iterative PO solver for fast simulation of multiple shadowing effects and multi-bounce reflections</li>
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Calculation of near fields, far fields and scattering cross section (bistatic and monostatic RCS)</li>
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Frequency and angular sweeps with data animation</li>
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Parametric sweep with variable object properties or source parameters</li>
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Multi-variable and multi-goal optimization of structure</li>
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Remote simulation capability</li>
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Both Windows and Linux versions of PO simulation engine available</li>
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=== Data Generation & Visualization ===
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Electric and magnetic surface current distributions on metallic or impedance surfaces</li>
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Near field intensity plots (vectorial - amplitude & phase)</li>
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Huygens surface data generation for use in PO or other [[EM.Cube|EM.CUBE]] modules</li>
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Far field radiation patterns: 3D pattern visualization and 2-D Cartesian and polar graphs</li>
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Bi-static and monostatic radar cross section: 3D visualization and 2D graphs</li>
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Custom output parameters defined as mathematical expressions of standard outputs</li>
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== A Physical Optics Simulation Primer ==