Feature Tutorials

• Mediums
  • Modeling dispersive materials
  • Fitting dispersive material models
  • Defining fully anisotropic materials
  • Defining gyrotropic materials
  • Defining spatially-varying dielectric structures
  • Applying time modulation to materials
• Structures
  • Importing GDS files
  • Export to GDS file
  • Importing STL files
  • Defining self-intersecting polygons
  • Geometry Transformations
  • Defining common integrated photonic components
  • Defining common photonic crystal structures
  • Defining complex geometries using trimesh
• Grid Specification
  • Using automatic nonuniform meshing
• Boundary Conditions & Symmetry
  • Setting up boundary conditions
  • Defining and using symmetries
• Sources
  • Defining mode sources and monitors
  • Injecting modes in bent and angled waveguides
  • Defining a total-field scattered-field (TFSF) plane wave source
  • Defining spatially-varying sources
• Data Visualization and Postprocessing
  • Visualizing geometries in Tidy3D
  • Performing visualization of simulation data
  • Advanced monitor data (xarray) manipulation and visualization
  • Creating FDTD animations
  • Performing near field to far field projections
• Mode Solver
  • Using the mode solver for optical mode analysis
  • Using the waveguide plugin to analyze waveguide modes
• Design Space Exploration
  • Performing parallel / batch processing of simulations
  • Design Space Exploration Plugin
• Scattering Matrix
  • Computing the scattering matrix of a device
• Resonance Finder
  • Extracting resonance information using Resonance Finder
  • Cavity quality factor, effective mode volume, and Purcell factor
• Inverse Design / Adjoint Optimization
  • Inverse Design Quickstart
  • Jax, automatic differentiation, and adjoint optimization: basics
  • Adjoint analysis of a multi-layer slab
  • Inverse design optimization of a mode converter
  • Multi-objective adjoint optimization
  • Inverse design optimization of a waveguide taper
  • Inverse design optimization of a compact grating coupler
  • Inverse design optimization of a metalens
  • Adjoint-based shape optimization of a waveguide bend
  • Adjoint optimization of a wavelength division multiplexer
  • Parameterized level set optimization of a y-branch
  • Inverse design integrated with circuit simulation
  • Adjoint inverse design of a quantum emitter light extractor
  • Diffractive metasurface inverse design with topology optimization
  • Machine learning-based fabrication constraints for inverse design using PreFab
• HEAT 🔥
  • Heat solver
• Advanced Applications
  • Building a simple, Python-based GUI for Tidy3D