{"id":357718,"date":"2024-03-18T18:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/357718\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:14:46","slug":"357718","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/357718\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Optimization in Lumerical FDTD \u200f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;FOM (Figure of Merit) can only be a scalar, one value from the built-in particle swam optimization. eigen vector is a not&nbsp; a scale factor. So you will need to manuliplate the eigenvector to form a FOM.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more than one FOM value, other third tools may have multi-targets algorithms that you might use. Currently Lumerical can use Matlab and Python. You may explore them.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-357718","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/357718","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\/357718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}