Object-oriented electrodynamic S-matrix code with modern applications

The S-matrix algorithm for the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through planar stratified media has been implemented in a modern object-oriented programing language. This implementation is suitable for the study of such applications as the Anderson localization of light and super-resolution (perfect lensing). For our open-source code to be as useful as possible to the scientific community, we paid particular attention to the pathological cases that arise in the limit of vanishing absorption. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.