=== Near Field Visualization ===
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[[File:PO42(4).png|thumb|300px|PO Module's Field Sensor dialog]]
EM.Cube allows you to visualize the near fields at a specific field sensor plane. Calculation of near fields is a post-processing process and may take a considerable amount of time depending on the resolution that you specify. To define a new Field Sensor, follow these steps:
After closing the Field Sensor Dialog, a new field sensor item immediately appears under the '''Observables''' section in the Navigation Tree. Once a PO simulation is finished, a total of 14 plots are added to every field sensor node in the Navigation Tree. These include the magnitude and phase of all three components of '''E''' and '''H''' fields and the total electric and magnetic field values. Click on any of these items and a color-coded intensity plot of it will be visualized on the project workspace. A legend box appears in the upper right corner of the field plot, which can be dragged around using the left mouse button. The values of the magnitude plots are normalized between 0 and 1. The legend box contains the minimum field value corresponding to 0 of the color map, maximum field value corresponding to 1 of the color map, and the unit of the field quantity, which is V/m for E-field and A/m for H-field. The values of phase plots are always shown in Radians between -p and p.To display the fields properly, the structure is cut through the field sensor plane, and only part of it is shown. If the structure still blocks your view, you can simply hide or freeze it. You can change the view of the field plot with the available view operations such as rotate view, pan, zoom, etc. '''Keep in mind that since Physical Optics is an asymptotic method, the field sensors must be placed at adequate distances (at least one or few wavelengths) away from the scatterers to produce acceptable results.'''
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Figure 1: PO Module's Field Sensor dialog.<br />
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