Re: [Meep-discuss] question about dispersive complex epsilon for gain

2020-07-25 Thread Alexander Cerjan
as best i can tell, you've set the dimension of your structure to 3, but the size in the x and y directions to be a single pixel. This is, depending on what you're trying to do, a somewhat odd situation, because you have no absorbing boundary condition in the x-y plane, only for waves which are

Re: [Meep-discuss] question about dispersive complex epsilon for gain

2020-07-25 Thread 裴延波
Dear Cerjan, thank you for your kind help. Now let me summarize my tests. Firstly, I decreased sigma to 1e-100. However the electric field still grows fast to infinity. My test results show that sigma=1e-120 made the calculation converge. But why sigma is required so small. It does not make

Re: [Meep-discuss] question about dispersive complex epsilon for gain

2020-07-25 Thread 裴延波
Thank you for your kind help. Actually, I have tried the strength parameter sigma as small as 1e-20. But the field rises to infinity rapidly. sigma can be used to tune the gain, can't it? -- 发自我的网易邮箱平板适配版 在 2020-07-26 04:47:29,"Alexander Cerjan" 写道: This is likely the physically

Re: [Meep-discuss] question about dispersive complex epsilon for gain

2020-07-25 Thread Alexander Cerjan
This is likely the physically expected behavior. If your gain is coupling to a mode of your system whose loss rate is less than that of the rate of stimulated emission, your system will begin to lase, i.e. the field will begin to grow exponentially. In real, physical systems, this is then

[Meep-discuss] question about dispersive complex epsilon for gain

2020-07-25 Thread 裴延波
I am trying to use dispersive complex epsilon to describe gain in my calculation. The parameters for the epsilon is defined as follows. freq_32 = 2# emission frequency (units of 2\pi c/a) gamma_32 = 0.306# FWHM emission linewidth in sec^-1 (units of 2\pi c/a) sigma_32 = 1e-4