FDTD Simulation with small refractive index

FDTD Simulation with small refractive index – Silver

- March 16, 2021 at 3:52 pm
  
  Taylor Robertson
  Ansys Employee
  
  Materials with a very small real refractive index (such as silver) can be challenging to simulate. This page describes how to obtain accurate simulation results in such cases. Lumerica provides three Ag material models. Other models can be found at refractive index dot info and imported as yaml files.
  See Also
  Modifying material fits
  Importing arbitrary dispersive models
  3D Gold Mie scattering sphere
- March 16, 2021 at 3:57 pm
  
  Taylor Robertson
  Ansys Employee
  
  In FDTD, material data should contain one refractive index at each wavelength point, and these must be fit to a model. You can select the material data that best represent the material you are simulating or create new sampled data from other references or measurements. Low index materials, has small phase velocity which means light will propagate slowly. One should always check the material fit.n

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