DEVICE Suite
Object library objects and related analysis
- Absorption per unit volume
- Calculating absorbed optical power - from divergence of Poynting vector
- Calculating absorbed optical power - Higher accuracy method with multiple materials
- Calculating absorbed optical power - Simple method
- Calculating the effective mode area of a waveguide mode
- Calculating the far field polarization ellipse
Far field and grating projections
- Adjusting the projection distance in far field projections
- Calculating magnetic fields in far field projections
- Creating line plots of far field projections
- Far field projections in DGTD overview
- Far field projections in FDTD overview
- Grating projections in DGTD overview
Reference manuals
- CHARGE Product Reference Manual
- DGTD product reference manual
- FDTD product reference manual
- FEEM product reference manual
- HEAT product reference manual
- MODE product reference manual
Solver physics
- CHARGE solver introduction
- Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain (DGTD) solver introduction
- Eigenmode propagate script command
- Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) solver introduction
- Finite Element EigenMode (FEEM) solver introduction
- HEAT solver introduction
Integrated design environment (IDE)
- Ansys Lumerical FDTD™ Modern User Interface
- Dataset builder utility overview
- MODE View Option Changes
- Object Library in FDTD and MODE
- Simulation Workflow Overview in the Finite Element IDE (CHARGE, HEAT, DGTD, FEEM)
- Tips for Script Prompt and Script File Editor
Simulation objects
- 2D Polygon - Simulation Object
- 2D Rectangle - Simulation Object
- Activating the MQW Solver Exciton Model
- Adding Strain to the MQW Layers
- Analysis - Simulation object
- Analysis Groups - Simulation object
Simulation Object - Additional information
- Always extend structures through PML boundary conditions
- Bloch boundary conditions in FDTD and MODE
- Broadband Fixed Angle Source Technique (BFAST)
- Changing the source bandwidth in FDTD and MODE
- Charge distribution to change in refractive index theory
- Creating a custom source spectrum for an FDTD source
Materials
- Advanced and custom optical material models in FDTD and MODE
- Alloy material model properties
- C (graphene) - Falkovsky (mid-IR) material model
- Creating and modifying electrical materials from a script
- Creating and modifying optical materials from a script
- Creating and modifying thermal materials from a script
Result Analysis
- Advanced options - Modal Analysis Tab
- Browsing data with the Results Manager
- Calculating absorbed optical power - Higher accuracy
- Calculating charge distributions and currents in metals induced by an optical field
- Convergence testing process for EME simulations
- Convergence testing process for FDTD simulations
Optimizations and Sweeps
- Corner analysis utility
- Creating nested parameter sweeps
- Creating optimization tasks using a script
- Creating parameter sweeps using a script
- Monte Carlo analysis utility
- Monte Carlo analysis with spatial correlations