Abstract Models#

These are some classes that are used to organize the tidy3d components, but aren’t to be used directly in the code. Documented here mainly for reference.

`tidy3d.components.base.Tidy3dBaseModel`	Base pydantic model that all Tidy3d components inherit from.
`tidy3d.components.base_sim.simulation.AbstractSimulation`	Base class for simulation classes of different solvers.
`tidy3d.components.boundary.AbsorberSpec`	Specifies the generic absorber properties along a single dimension.
`tidy3d.Geometry`	Abstract base class, defines where something exists in space.
`tidy3d.components.geometry.base.Centered`	Geometry with a well defined center.
`tidy3d.components.geometry.base.Planar`	Geometry with one `axis` that is slab-like with thickness `height`.
`tidy3d.components.geometry.base.Circular`	Geometry with circular characteristics (specified by a radius).
`tidy3d.components.medium.AbstractMedium`	A medium within which electromagnetic waves propagate.
`tidy3d.components.medium.AbstractCustomMedium`	A spatially varying medium.
`tidy3d.components.medium.DispersiveMedium`	A Medium with dispersion: field propagation characteristics depend on frequency.
`tidy3d.components.medium.CustomDispersiveMedium`	A spatially varying dispersive medium.
`tidy3d.components.structure.AbstractStructure`	A basic structure object.
`tidy3d.components.source.SourceTime`	Base class describing the time dependence of a source.
`tidy3d.components.source.Source`	Abstract base class for all sources.
`tidy3d.components.source.FieldSource`	A Source defined by the desired E and/or H fields.
`tidy3d.components.source.CurrentSource`	Source implements a current distribution directly.
`tidy3d.components.source.ReverseInterpolatedSource`	Abstract source that allows reverse-interpolation along zero-sized dimensions.
`tidy3d.components.source.AngledFieldSource`	A FieldSource defined with an angled direction of propagation.
`tidy3d.components.source.PlanarSource`	A source defined on a 2D plane.
`tidy3d.components.source.DirectionalSource`	A Field source that propagates in a given direction.
`tidy3d.components.source.BroadbandSource`	A source with frequency dependent field distributions.
`tidy3d.components.source.VolumeSource`	A source defined in a 3D `Box`.
`tidy3d.components.source.Pulse`	A source time that ramps up with some `fwidth` and oscillates at `freq0`.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.Monitor`	Abstract base class for monitors.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.FreqMonitor`	`Monitor` that records data in the frequency-domain.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.TimeMonitor`	`Monitor` that records data in the time-domain.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.AbstractFieldMonitor`	`Monitor` that records electromagnetic field data as a function of x,y,z.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.AbstractFluxMonitor`	`Monitor` that records flux during the solver run.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.PlanarMonitor`	`Monitor` that has a planar geometry.
`tidy3d.components.monitor.AbstractFieldProjectionMonitor`	`Monitor` that samples electromagnetic near fields in the frequency domain and projects them to a given set of observation points.
`tidy3d.components.grid.grid_spec.GridSpec1d`	Abstract base class, defines 1D grid generation specifications.
`tidy3d.components.data.sim_data.SimulationData`	Stores data from a collection of `Monitor` objects in a `Simulation`.
`tidy3d.components.data.data_array.DataArray`	Subclass of `xr.DataArray` that requires _dims to match the keys of the coords.
`tidy3d.components.data.monitor_data.MonitorData`	Abstract base class of objects that store data pertaining to a single `monitor`.
`tidy3d.components.data.monitor_data.AbstractFieldProjectionData`	Collection of projected fields in spherical coordinates in the frequency domain.
`tidy3d.components.data.monitor_data.ElectromagneticFieldData`	Collection of electromagnetic fields.
`tidy3d.components.data.monitor_data.AbstractMonitorData`	Abstract base class of objects that store data pertaining to a single `AbstractMonitor`.
`tidy3d.components.data.dataset.AbstractFieldDataset`	Collection of scalar fields with some symmetry properties.
`tidy3d.components.data.dataset.FieldDataset`	Dataset storing a collection of the scalar components of E and H fields in the freq.
`tidy3d.components.data.dataset.FieldTimeDataset`	Dataset storing a collection of the scalar components of E and H fields in the time domain
`tidy3d.components.data.dataset.ModeSolverDataset`	Dataset storing scalar components of E and H fields as a function of freq.