Ansys Insight: Calculating the response to an unpolarized beam

- March 12, 2021 at 5:21 pm
  
  Greg Baethge
  Ansys Employee
  
  To simulate an unpolarized beam or plane wave source, two simulations with orthogonal polarizations will be required.
- September 26, 2022 at 12:50 am
  
  Byeong Je Jeon
  Subscriber
  
  There has been less writing. Please write the rest of the previous post or link to the original article.
- September 30, 2023 at 9:07 am
  
  Tisha Elizabeth Tomy
  Subscriber
  
  Hi. how to give unpolarized light to the simulation because i want to check whether there will be any polarization change on metasurface. please help me
- October 4, 2023 at 3:57 pm
  
  Greg Baethge
  Ansys Employee
  
  Apologies for this, the content of this post got damaged for some reason. You can't model unpolarized light in FDTD directly. To simulate an unpolarized beam, you need 2 separate simulations, with 2 orthogonal polarizations (typically we use a polarization angle of 0 and 90°). Then you can average incoherently the results.
  You will find more information in this page.