title: Exact solution of Maxwell's equations for optical interactions with a macroscopic random medium: addendum.
abstract: This Addendum provides a revised set of figures containing converged numerical data for total scattering cross section (TSCS), replacing the figures in our recent publication [Opt. Lett. 29, 1393 (2004)]. Due to the use of an overly large time step, our original TSCS data exhibited a systematic, nonphysical diminution above 150 THz for all cases studied. We have determined that numerical convergence in the temporal sense for the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) algorithm employed previously requires limiting the time step to no more than 1/60th of the sinusoidal period at the maximum frequency of interest, which in the previous case was 300 THz. This is an important point that we hereby report to future users of PSTD simulations in electrodynamics and optics. Note that all our original conclusions remain valid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. s-tseng@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Snow H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: Jethro H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Allen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taflove
authors.forename: Duncan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maitland
authors.forename: Vadim
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Backman
authors.forename: Joseph T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000379:methods*; D055095:Optics and Photonics