Amplitude-matrix superposition of plane waves

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Reference: amplitude-matrix superposition of plane waves
Kind: method: an independent formulation inside this repo (a scattering matrix, a plane-wave superposition, a quadrature): proves the formulation
Calculated: detected power
Agreement: 2e-8

A coated sphere (0.8/1.4 µm) under a focused beam (NA 0.6/0.2, collection 0.8/0.1): against plane-wave superposition The reference sums the sphere's amplitude matrix over a grid of incident and scattered directions in the pupil (focused_checks.py); PyStratify uses its closed-form beam coefficients. The incident power is 1.

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largest relative difference: 5.19×10⁻¹²
PyStratify the lines, the reference the circles

Run it yourself: focused_checks.py · test_focused.py · figures.py · FOCUSED_CHECKS.md on GitHub, PyStratify 97e52a9