tidy3d.PerturbationMedium

tidy3d.PerturbationMedium#

class PerturbationMedium[source]#

Bases: Medium, AbstractPerturbationMedium

Dispersionless medium with perturbations. Perturbation model can be defined either directly through providing permittivity_perturbation and conductivity_perturbation or via providing a specific perturbation model (PermittivityPerturbation, IndexPerturbation) as perturbaiton_spec.

Parameters:

  • subpixel (bool = True) – This value will be transferred to the resulting custom medium. That is, if True, the subpixel averaging will be applied to the custom medium. The type of subpixel averaging method applied is specified in Simulation’s field subpixel. If the resulting medium is not a custom medium (no perturbations), this field does not have an effect.

  • perturbation_spec (Optional[Union[PermittivityPerturbation, IndexPerturbation]] = None) – Specification of medium perturbation as one of predefined types.

  • name (Optional[str] = None) – Optional unique name for medium.

  • frequency_range (Optional[tuple[float, float]] = None) – [units = (Hz, Hz)]. Optional range of validity for the medium.

  • allow_gain (bool = False) – Allow the medium to be active. Caution: simulations with a gain medium are unstable, and are likely to diverge.Simulations where allow_gain is set to True will still be charged even if diverged. Monitor data up to the divergence point will still be returned and can be useful in some cases.

  • nonlinear_spec (Optional[Union[NonlinearSpec, NonlinearSusceptibility]] = None) – Nonlinear spec applied on top of the base medium properties.

  • modulation_spec (Optional[ModulationSpec] = None) – Modulation spec applied on top of the base medium properties.

  • viz_spec (Optional[VisualizationSpec] = None) – Plotting specification for visualizing medium.

  • heat_spec (Optional[Union[FluidSpec, SolidSpec, SolidMedium, FluidMedium]] = None) – DEPRECATED: Use MultiPhysicsMedium. Specification of the medium heat properties. They are used for solving the heat equation via the HeatSimulation interface. Such simulations can beused for investigating the influence of heat propagation on the properties of optical systems. Once the temperature distribution in the system is found using HeatSimulation object, Simulation.perturbed_mediums_copy() can be used to convert mediums with perturbation models defined into spatially dependent custom mediums. Otherwise, the heat_spec does not directly affect the running of an optical Simulation.

  • permittivity (Union[float, autograd.tracer.Box] = 1.0) – [units = None (relative permittivity)]. Relative permittivity.

  • conductivity (Union[float, autograd.tracer.Box] = 0.0) – [units = S/um]. Electric conductivity. Defined such that the imaginary part of the complex permittivity at angular frequency omega is given by conductivity/omega.

  • permittivity_perturbation (Optional[ParameterPerturbation] = None) – [units = None (relative permittivity)]. List of heat and/or charge perturbations to permittivity.

  • conductivity_perturbation (Optional[ParameterPerturbation] = None) – [units = S/um]. List of heat and/or charge perturbations to permittivity.

Example

>>> from tidy3d import ParameterPerturbation, LinearHeatPerturbation
>>> dielectric = PerturbationMedium(
...     permittivity=4.0,
...     permittivity_perturbation=ParameterPerturbation(
...         heat=LinearHeatPerturbation(temperature_ref=300, coeff=0.0001),
...     ),
...     name='my_medium',
... )

Attributes

permittivity_perturbation

conductivity_perturbation

permittivity

conductivity

name

frequency_range

allow_gain

nonlinear_spec

modulation_spec

viz_spec

heat_spec

subpixel

perturbation_spec

Methods

perturbed_copy([temperature, ...])

Sample perturbations on provided heat and/or charge data and return 'CustomMedium'.
permittivity_perturbation#
conductivity_perturbation#
perturbed_copy(temperature=None, electron_density=None, hole_density=None, interp_method='linear')[source]#

Sample perturbations on provided heat and/or charge data and return ‘CustomMedium’. Any of temperature, electron_density, and hole_density can be ‘None’. If all passed arguments are ‘None’ then a ‘Medium’ object is returned. All provided fields must have identical coords.

Parameters:
Returns:

Medium specification after application of heat and/or charge data.

Return type:

Union[PerturbationMedium, CustomMedium]