NAME¶
mpb-data - transformations of HDF5 files output by MPB
SYNOPSIS¶
mpb-data [
OPTION]... [
HDF5FILE]...
DESCRIPTION¶
mpb-data is a utility to perform additional processing and transformations of
HDF5 files output by MPB, the MIT Photonic-Bands program. In particular, it is
designed to make the output more amenable to visualization by reformatting it
into a rectangular grid, extending it to multiple periods, and rescaling the
data.
MIT Photonic Bands (MPB) is a free program to compute the band structures
(dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric
structures.
HDF5 is a free, portable binary format and supporting library developed by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
in Urbana-Champaign. A single
h5 file can contain multiple data sets;
by default,
mpb-data operates on all of the MPB-produced datasets in
the file, but this can be changed via the
-d option, or by using the
syntax
HDF5FILE:DATASET.
mpb-data writes its output datasets as additional datasets in the input
file(s), with "-new" appended to the dataset names. Alternatively,
it can write its output to a separate file, specified by the
-o option.
Note also that, by default, the output datasets are identical to the input
datasets; you must use one or more of the options below to specify a
transformation (e.g. the
-r/
-e and
-n options are very
useful).
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Display help on the command-line options and usage.
- -V
- Print the version number and copyright info for mpb-data.
- -v
- Verbose output.
- -o file
- Write output datasets to file (for the first input file only)
rather than as additional datasets in the input file(s) (the
default).
- -r
- Output a rectangular cell with the same volume as the cell of the input
data. This option is particularly useful for visualizing data from
non-orthogonal unit cells (e.g. a triangular lattice), as otherwise the
data will appear skewed or warped in most graphics programs. This option
should almost always be accompanied by the -n option to ensure a
uniform resolution.
- -e x,y,z
- As the -r option, but also make the first axis of the output along
the x,y,z direction (in Cartesian coordinates) instead of along the
first lattice vector as for -r.
- -P phaseangle
- For complex-valued datasets, this option causes the output values to be
rotated by phaseangle degrees in the complex plane. That is, they
are multiplied by exp(2 pi i phaseangle / 360).
- -n n
- Output n grid points per lattice unit ("a"). This is
useful not only for interpolating to finer (or coarser) resolutions, but
also to ensure that the resolution is uniform in each direction (to
prevent the data from looking distorted when you visualize it).
- -x mx, -y my, -z mz
- This tells mpb-data to output multiple periods in the corresponding
lattice directions. to use a particular slice of a two- or
three-dimensional dataset. e.g. -x 3.2 causes the output of 3.2
periods in the first lattice direction. The default is to output only a
single period.
- -m s
- Output s periods in each lattice direction; equivalent to:
-x s -y s -z s.
- -T
- The output has the first two dimensions (x and y) transposed. This is
useful in conjunction with the parallel (MPI) version of MPB, which for
performance reasons outputs all arrays with the first two dimensions
transposed. -T can undo this transposition.
- -p
- Pixellized output. Normally, the input data is linearly interpolated to
the output grid, but the -p option causes it to instead use the
nearest grid point in the input data. This is useful, for example, if you
want to study the discretization of the dielectric-function
representation.
- -d name
- Use dataset name from the input files; otherwise, the first dataset
from each file is used. Alternatively, use the syntax
HDF5FILE:DATASET, which allows you to specify a different dataset
for each file. You can use the h5ls command (included with hdf5) to
find the names of datasets within a file.
Note that this option is generally unnecessary, since mpb-data can already
find the relevant dataset(s) for files created by MPB. Also, note that
mpb-data treats the dataset specified by this option as a real scalar
dataset and does not include the exp(ikx) factors when extending the
dataset to multiple periods.
BUGS¶
Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.
AUTHORS¶
Written by Steven G. Johnson. Copyright (c) 1999-2012 by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
SEE ALSO¶
mpb(1)