
Note that certain features described in this documentation may therefore be unavailable if you are using a tagged release. This documentation is for the master branch of the source repository. For new users, the most important items to review are the Introduction, Tutorial/Basics, and FAQ. Documentationįor a list of topics, see the left navigation sidebar. Installation instructions are in Installation. Gzipped tarballs of tagged versions are in Releases. The source repository is hosted on GitHub. Tutorial/Basics provides examples of the various kinds of computations. Meep's scriptable interface makes it possible to combine many sorts of computations along with multi-parameter optimization in sequence or in parallel. Green's functions) - in response to an arbitrary source via a continuous-wave (CW) input (fixed-ω).

This can be used to calculate a wide variety of useful quantities.

Visualization routines for the simulation domain involving geometries, fields, boundary layers, sources, and monitors.Ī time-domain electromagnetic simulation simply evolves Maxwell's equations over time within some finite computational volume, essentially performing a kind of numerical experiment.Adjoint solver for inverse design and topology optimization.Field analyses including discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT), Poynting flux, mode decomposition (for S-parameters), energy density, near to far transformation, frequency extraction, local density of states (LDOS), modal volume, scattering cross section, Maxwell stress tensor, absorbed power density, arbitrary functions completely programmable.GDSII file import for planar geometries.ε/μ and field import/export in the HDF5 data format.Frequency-domain solver for finding the response to a continuous-wave (CW) source as well as a frequency-domain eigensolver for finding resonant modes.Custom current sources with arbitrary time and spatial profile as well as a mode launcher for waveguides and planewaves, and Gaussian beams.Subpixel smoothing for improving accuracy and shape optimization.Exploitation of symmetries to reduce the computation size, including even/odd mirror planes and 90°/180° rotations.Perfectly matched layer ( PML) absorbing boundaries as well as Bloch-periodic and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.Materials library containing predefined broadband, complex refractive indices.Variety of arbitrary material types: anisotropic electric permittivity ε and magnetic permeability μ, along with dispersive ε(ω) and μ(ω) including loss/gain, nonlinear (Kerr & Pockels) dielectric and magnetic materials, electric/magnetic conductivities σ, saturable gain/absorption, and gyrotropic media (magneto-optical effects).Precompiled binary packages of official releases via Conda.
FDTD SOFTWARE PORTABLE
Portable to any Unix-like operating system such as Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.Distributed memory parallelism on any system supporting MPI.

FDTD SOFTWARE SOFTWARE
