MC GratingAdvanced Output
This documentation was written for releases up to 2018 and is being revised. Some dialogs have changed since. If something does not match what you see, write to mc@mcgrating.com.
The Advanced Output submenu is invisible in the calculation of the Fixed Parameters. This submenu allows the user to add equations for additional outputs based on diffraction order values and scanning argument. As an example, this submenu contains the equation to display the additional column with a difference of balance and unity. The data in all allowed output columns (standard and not only displayed) can be used as arguments for additional output columns. Column names used as arguments must be converted in accordance with the rules given in the example remarks. If you used the absent scan diffraction order, then the scanning process will stop with an error message. If the column name starts with a "_" character, then this column will not be present in the output, and its name can be used as an argument in formulas of subsequent columns. In conjunction with 1D Advanced Scanning, argument of Advanced Scanning (ScnArg or RowVar) also can be used in formulas of Advanced Output.
MC Grating includes some built-in edit checks, but nevertheless the user is fully responsible for the correctness of the typed equations.
The following table gives an overview of the functions supported.
From the in-application help of Modal Collinear and Modal Conical, documented through 2018. If you publish results computed with MC Grating, see how to cite it.