Talk:Scattering-matrix method

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There are lots of methods to solve Maxwell's equations that involve computing scattering matrices, involving many different bases. There are eigenmode-expansion methods (e.g. camfr is one example), there are methods using spherical harmonic bases, there are scattering-matrix computations using boundary-element methods, there are methods using planewave expansions....

To describe as "the" scattering-matrix method a technique restricted to N cylinders, or to using cylindrical basis functions in general, reflects such a fantastically narrow view as to be totally misleading.

— Steven G. Johnson (talk) 16:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]