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

Inverse Design

HEAT 🔥

• Heat solver

EME |:rainbow:|

• EME solver

Advanced Applications

Microwave and RF

• Computing the characteristic impedance of transmission lines using Tidy3D

Inverse Design with the Adjoint Plugin (Deprecated)

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

Inverse Design