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September 7, 2022 at 6:23 am
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SubscriberHi everyone, I ran a small simulation test. The substrate is aluminum oxide, rectangular in shape and 500um in thickness (-500, 0). The light source selects a plane beam with a wavelength of 40um, and the position is 20um (20) higher than the substrate. The monitor selects the frequency domain power monitor, which is located at (-550) um. After running the simulation, I found that the monitor power is 0.
I think something happens, like the absorption of light by aluminum oxide. So I set the substrate material to etch and the result is still 0. This is not the same as what I expected. Why can't the light source travel a long distance without a medium? Thank you very much for your reply.
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September 7, 2022 at 6:26 am
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September 7, 2022 at 6:29 am
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September 7, 2022 at 6:33 am
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SubscriberIn addition, the background refractive index of the FDTD simulation region is 1
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September 7, 2022 at 4:17 pm
Moshe
SubscriberHi,
I suggest to check the "simulation time" in the FDTD.
My guess is that your simulation time ended before the wave reached the field monitor.
Best regards.
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September 8, 2022 at 2:28 am
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SubscriberThanks for your suggestion, I will try it.
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September 7, 2022 at 6:01 pm
Guilin Sun
Ansys EmployeeThank you @Moshe ! this is the first thing to check with a time monitor and see if the pulse has reached there, and have a series of pulses due to this F-B cavity.
Please make sure you are simulating a cavity.
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September 8, 2022 at 2:52 am
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SubscriberSorry, I'm not very familiar with time monitoring. I may need an example to help me figure out how to set the simulation time. In addition, my main working range is in the terahertz band. Thanks again.
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September 8, 2022 at 3:32 pm
Guilin Sun
Ansys Employeeterahertz band will definitely need much longer simulaiton time since the default is for optical frequency. For cavity, you can think the simulation needs 100 times of the light propagation from source to monitor due to multiple reflections, and let the autoshutoff min to terminate the simulation.
You can simply add a time monitor at the exit side. After simulation terminates, you can check the time signal with visualier: https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037222234-Using-the-data-visualizer-and-figure-windows
Another method is to check the progress percentage. If it terminates at 100% with the default autoshutoff min, it indicates the simulation time is not long enough.
There are some online videos in the EDU course, or in youtube that you can search and watch.
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