{"id":236192,"date":"2022-09-23T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/236192\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:05:52","slug":"236192","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/236192\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: 1D Photonic crystal biosensor design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;It seems you are new to FDTD?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;if so, please take some online courses in ALH for paid customers with registration: https:\/\/www.ansys.com\/services\/ansys-learning-hub&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;there are some open videos online: &nbsp;https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/sections\/360007813194-FDTD100-List-of-videos&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You will need to use mode source (usually the first mode, but you need to know which mode to use), PML bcs, Frequency-domain power monitors.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You will also need to make sure the length is the grating is &#8220;infinitely&#8221; over vertical direction, or small such as around 1um.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please try to get some information from the videos and online explanations. If you have questions regarding to source, BCs, monitors please write a separate post for each of them.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-236192","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/236192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/236192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}