Re: [Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-10 Thread 裴延波
Dear Mr. Cerjan, I will do it along this way. Thank you very much. Yanbo At 2019-07-09 23:38:12, "Alexander Cerjan" wrote: 1 million increments of MEEP's internal dt is not a very long time necessarily. if i recall correctly, the tutorial example runs for 3.5 or 7 million time

Re: [Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-09 Thread Alexander Cerjan
1 million increments of MEEP's internal dt is not a very long time necessarily. if i recall correctly, the tutorial example runs for 3.5 or 7 million time steps. Near the first lasing threshold (or subsequent thresholds) it can take quite a bit of runtime for the system to reach the steady state,

Re: [Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-08 Thread 裴延波
Yes. The problem of using the above parameters is that no lasing takes place after 1000 000 MEEP's time step. At that time I wondered whether I used correct units for those parameters and therefore I raised question about the units of N0 and Rp. I increased N0, Rp, or sigma and I saw the

Re: [Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-06 Thread 裴延波
Dear Mr. Cerjan, Thanks for your kindly and detailed reply. I feel that I have understood what you said. However I am not sure I treated coupling strength sigma correctly. For example, there are parameters for four-level gain atoms adopted from the reference Phys. Rev. Lett. 2000, 85,

Re: [Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-04 Thread Alexander Cerjan
Dear Yanbo Pei, In this essentially classical treatment of the interactions between a saturable gain/absorbing medium and the electromagnetic fields, there are three different variables that can all be tuned to control the effective gain/loss that the field sees -- the two that you mentioned, N0

[Meep-discuss] the unit of N0 and Rp in the multiLevel susceptibility

2019-07-04 Thread 裴延波
Dear Meep users and developers I am using multilevel-Atomic Susceptibility of MEEP to do some simulation. I wonder what is the unit of N0 - total number of gain atoms in the system and Rp - pumping rate. In the code of the tutorial documents(Multilevel_atomic Susceptibility), N0 is equal to