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5. Acknowledgments
The software as it is was written by Boris Kuhlmey. The initial draft of software which has evolved into the CUDOS MOF Utilities was written during his PhD studies under the super- vision of Gilles Renversez, Ross McPhedran, Daniel Maystre, and de facto also C. Martijn de Sterke. Tom White wrote a similar piece of software almost simultaneously as part of his honours project, and although the current version of the software doesn’t include code from Tom White, it certainly has benefited a lot from his pioneering work. After his Phd Boris Kuhlmey joined CUDOS, and rewrote a substantial part of the code to make it more stable and more user-friendly with the aim of making it publicly available. Prof. Ross McPhedran and Prof. C. Martijn de Sterke are also with CUDOS, and Dr. Gilles Renversez and Dr. Daniel Maystre are with the Institut Fresnel, UMR 6133, Marseille, France. Tom White is currently finishing his PhD with CUDOS/the University of Sydney. Boris Kuhlmey would also like to ac- knowledge the support of the system administrators of both the School of Physics/University of Sydney (Dr. Sebastian Juraszek, Dr. Tony Monger and George Shan) and the Institut Fresnel (Frederic Forestier).
This work was produced with the assistance of the Australian Research Council under the ARC Centres of Excellence Program, and has benefitted from travel support provided by the French and Australian governments under the PICS/IREX and cotutelle schemes.
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