Xraytrace documentation

Xraytrace is run from console, using a parameter file as argument. Parameter file is a plain text file with some commands (described in the other sections of this documentation) and with links to other files.

A very minimum set needed for a reasonable calculation is shown here. It consist of three files: parameter file, sample geometry definition file and table of material parameters. You can paste the content below to newly created files or you can download the zipped files. download the zipped files.

test.par:

POOL
3e-9 3e-9 3e-9

MEDIUM_VECTOR_SAMPLE
100 100 100 test.vector test.table

COMP
90.4 90 100 0.359e-9

OUTPUT
out.vtk

STRIP_OUTPUT
1

SOURCE_METHOD
1

RAYS
1000000

PHASES
2

YBND
-1 1 20

test.vector:

4 50 50 40 20 1
8 0 0 0 100 100 20 2

test.table:

0 0 1  0 0 0
1 99 Ag 0 0
2 99 Si 0 0

Now, run the solver from command line with test.par as an argument. After a while, you should get the results. Open the file out.vtk in Paraview and you should see something like this:

This is nearly all what we can expect - at least for the basic calculation. We get the standing wave distribution within the object and we get a sum of the electric field intensity in each material. Running this for different wavelengths gives us similar information like the experiments.