Example Library 📚

Basics

• Quickstart
• Tidy3D first walkthrough
• Introduction on Tidy3D working principles
• Running simulations through the cloud
• How to troubleshoot a diverged FDTD simulation

Feature Tutorials

Mediums

Structures

• Importing GDS files
• Export to GDS file
• Importing STL files
• Defining self-intersecting polygons
• Geometry Transformations
• Defining common integrated photonic components
• Defining common photonic crystal structures
• Defining complex geometries using trimesh

Grid Specification

• Using automatic nonuniform meshing

Boundary Conditions & Symmetry

Sources

Data Visualization and Postprocessing

Mode Solver

Design Space Exploration

Scattering Matrix

• Computing the scattering matrix of a device

Resonance Finder

Automatic Differentiation in Tidy3d

Inverse Design / Adjoint Optimization

HEAT 🔥

• Heat solver

EME

• EME Solver

Advanced Applications

• Building a simple, Python-based GUI for Tidy3D

Microwave and RF

• Computing the characteristic impedance of transmission lines using Tidy3D

Case Studies

Passive Photonic Integrated Circuit Components

Active Photonic Integrated Circuit Components

Global Optimization

Metamaterials, Gratings, and Other Periodic Structures

• Dielectric metasurface absorber
• Gradient metasurface reflector
• Graphene metamaterial absorber
• Tunable chiral metasurface based on phase change material
• Microwave frequency selective surface
• High-Q silicon resonator
• Germanium Fano metasurface
• Multilevel blazed diffraction grating
• Biosensor grating simulation
• Distributed Bragg reflector and cavity
• CMOS RGB image sensor
• Plasmonic cavity resonator consisting of a gold nanorod array
• All-dielectric structural colors
• MIM resonator
• Vortex beam metasurface

Microwave and RF Devices

• Designing and optimizing a coupled line bandpass filter

Photonic Crystals

Optical Scattering and Far-field Radiation

Lenses

Nanophotonics

Fiber Optics

• Anti-resonant hollow-core fiber