Reply To: hybrid plasmonic waveguide based biosensor

[Guilin Sun]

effective index can be found from the mode source;

Not sure what is your definition of the normalized guided power. You can use port to get transmission for each mode you want;

also not sure what "propagation distance" means, since usually it is what you set;

"surface and bulk sensitivity" what are the math and physical defintions? FDTD gives you field components and power quantity. The rest is up to you for calculation from definition;

"Figure of merit" is what you define and calculate.