flex_rf.tidy3d.FluxMonitor

Type: class │ Base(s): AbstractFluxMonitor, FreqMonitor

Description

Monitor that records power flux in the frequency domain.

Notes

If the monitor geometry is a 2D box, the total flux through this plane is returned, with a positive sign corresponding to power flow in the positive direction along the axis normal to the plane. If the geometry is a 3D box, the total power coming out of the box is returned by integrating the flux over all box surfaces (except the ones defined in exclude_surfaces).

Practical Advice

If measured transmission exceeds 1.0 or is negative, verify that the monitor normal axis aligns with the expected power flow direction. A common mistake is placing a flux monitor with its normal pointing opposite to the propagation direction.

Extracting transmission:

sim_data = web.run(sim, task_name="my_sim")
flux = sim_data["flux_monitor"].flux  # xarray DataArray indexed by frequency

# If source injects 1W (ModeSource at center frequency), flux IS the transmission
T = flux.values

# For normalization against a reference simulation:
# T = flux_device / flux_reference

Example(s)

monitor = FluxMonitor(
    center=(1,2,3),
    size=(2,2,0),
    freqs=[200e12, 210e12],
    name='flux_monitor')

Parameters

size [TracedSize]

Size in x, y, and z directions.

name [str]

Unique name for monitor.

freqs [FreqArray]

Array or list of frequencies stored by the field monitor.

center [TracedCoordinate] = (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Center of object in x, y, and z.

interval_space [tuple[Literal[1], Literal[1], Literal[1]]] = (1, 1, 1)

Number of grid step intervals between monitor recordings. If equal to 1, there will be no downsampling. If greater than 1, the step will be applied, but the first and last point of the monitor grid are always included. Not all monitors support values different from 1.

colocate [Literal[True]] = True

Defines whether fields are colocated to grid cell boundaries (i.e. to the primal grid). Can be toggled for field recording monitors and is hard-coded for other monitors depending on their specific function.

use_colocated_integration [Literal[True]] = True

Whether to use colocated fields for flux, dot products, and overlap integrals. Hard-coded to True for most monitor types. Can be toggled on field and overlap monitors.

apodization [ApodizationSpec] = factory: ApodizationSpec

Sets parameters of (optional) apodization. Apodization applies a windowing function to the Fourier transform of the time-domain fields into frequency-domain ones, and can be used to truncate the beginning and/or end of the time signal, for example to eliminate the source pulse when studying the eigenmodes of a system. Note: apodization affects the normalization of the frequency-domain fields.

normal_dir [Direction | None] = None

Direction of the surface monitor’s normal vector w.r.t. the positive x, y or z unit vectors. Must be one of '+' or '-'. Applies to surface monitors only, and defaults to '+' if not provided.

exclude_surfaces [tuple[BoxSurface, ...] | None] = None

Surfaces to exclude in the integration, if a volume monitor.

Methods

storage_size(num_cells: int, tmesh: ArrayFloat1D)

Size of monitor storage given the number of points after discretization.