Overlay plots of different angles of incidence.
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I'm trying to plot the reflectivity of a grating over a range of frequencies and repeat this plot when changing the angle of incidence. My current code does plot the reflectivity at different angles but does so in seperate figures.
The end goal is something similar to the image. But using 3 axes rather than 2.

clear all
c = 600;
l = 300;
u = 800;
for a = 0:10:40
p = 1000;
s = (u-l)/p;
Frequency = zeros(1,p);
Reflectivity = zeros(1,p);
x = 1;
for range = l:s:u
y = (2*pi/range)*(c/4);
A = [1,1;1,-1];
B = [1,1;2,-2];
C = [1,1;4,-4];
P = [exp(-j*y*cosd(a)),0;0,exp(j*y*cosd(a))];
G = P*(B\C)*P*(C\B);
M = (A\B)*(G^3)*P*(G^3)*P*(B\A);
E1 = M(2,1)/M(1,1);
E2 = (abs(E1)^2);
Reflectivity(x) = E2;
Frequency(x) = range;
x = x+1;
end
figure;
grid on
[Fr,In] = meshgrid(Frequency,a);
plot3(Fr,In,Reflectivity')
xlabel('Frequency')
ylabel('Angle of Incidence')
zlabel('Reflectivity')
end
Accepted Answer
Mathieu NOE
on 10 Jan 2023
Edited: Mathieu NOE
on 20 Jan 2023
hello
a very simple modification of your code
create one figure and use hold on to overlay the next plots

% YOUR INIT SECTION HERE
figure(1);
grid on
hold on
xlabel('Frequency')
ylabel('Angle of Incidence')
zlabel('Reflectivity')
for Incident = 0:10:30 %ANGLE OF INCIDENCE
% YOUR MAIN CODE AS BEFORE HERE
%
%
%CHARTS
end
[Fr,In] = meshgrid(Frequency,Incident);
plot3(Fr,In,Reflectivity')
end
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Alan Stevens
on 10 Jan 2023
Remove the word figure and add hold on after the plot
grid on
[Fr,In] = meshgrid(Frequency,Incident);
plot3(Fr,In,Reflectivity')
xlabel('Frequency')
ylabel('Angle of Incidence')
zlabel('Reflectivity')
hold on
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