ipkiss3.all.device_sim.LumericalFDTDSimulation
- class ipkiss3.all.device_sim.LumericalFDTDSimulation
Define a simulation for use with Lumerical’s FDTD Solutions.
For the tutorial, please check Ansys Lumerical FDTD tutorial.
The following parameters are exposed to the Lumerical GUI:
project_folder: location of the project on the computer.
bbox_xmin, bbox_xmax, bbox_ymin, bbox_ymax, bbox_zmin, bbox_zmax: the bounding box geometry where the simulation is defined
port_{{PORT_NAME}}_x, port_{{PORT_NAME}}_y, port_{{PORT_NAME}}_z : the position of the port with name {{PORT_NAME}}.
start_wl, stop_wl: start and stop wavelength.
- Parameters:
- geometry: SimulationGeometry, required
The geometrical setup (objects, materials, …) we want to simulate
- safe_mode: ( ( bool, bool_ or int ) ), optional, *None allowed*
Launch FDTD in safe mode. Only valid for Ansys Lumerical >= 2020.Default is False because safe mode disables writing to files (which we use to store the simulation results).Set this value to None when using an older version of Lumerical.
- lumerical_exe_path: str and String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters, optional
Path to the fdtd-solutions executable. By default guess from registry keys on Windows, path on Linux.
- project_folder: str and String that contains only ISO/IEC 8859-1 (extended ASCII py3) or pure ASCII (py2) characters, optional
Path to the Lumerical project files
- headless: ( bool, bool_ or int ), optional
Don’t launch FDTD Solutions’ user interface when calculating results.
- verbose: ( bool, bool_ or int ), optional
Log messages to FDTD Solutions’ console.
- driver: optional
Lumerical simulation driver
- solver_material_map: dict, optional
Mapping of ipkiss TECH.MATERIALS items onto names that represent a native material in a electromagnetic solver. If specified, this map is used to reuse the native materials in the solver. Default is empty, which means we use the information available from TECH.MATERIALS to create the different materials in the solver.
- setup_macros: list and List with type restriction, allowed types: (<class ‘ipkiss3.simulation.device._simapi.Macro’>, <class ‘ipkiss3.simulation.device._simapi.MacroFile’>), optional
Tool-specific macros to run as part of the job setup.
- outputs: list, optional
Outputs of the simulation.
- monitors: list, optional
Monitors to capture the fields within a simulation
- Other Parameters:
- engine: locked