Gene Fuller wrote:
Most serious calculations by optical physicists are done through
Maxwell's Equations solvers. Intensity calculations are utterly
inadequate for exploring the details of high resolution imaging, for
example.

All that may be true, Gene. But don't Maxwell's
equations obey the superposition principle?
What does Maxwell say happens when we superpose
two EM waves out of phase such that destructive
interference occurs? What does Maxwell say
about the energy "lost" to destructive
interference? Where did it go?

Are intensity calculations utterly inadequate
for exploring the details of low resolution
transmission lines? :-) If the intensity
(power) calculations enumerated in the s-
parameter analysis description are utterly
inadequate, why are they used so often?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com