{"id":375622,"date":"2024-08-02T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/375622\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:03:03","slug":"375622","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/375622\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Custom light source profile and partial coherence light source in  Ansys FDTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;This is normal to compare the simulated results with experiment or publications:&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/forum.ansys.com\/forums\/topic\/ansys-insight-why-my-simulation-result-is-different-from-published-paper-or-experiment\/\">Ansys Insight: Why my simulation result is different from published paper or experiment?<\/a>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;In your case, you can use stackrt: <a href=\"https:\/\/optics.ansys.com\/hc\/en-us\/search\/click?data=BAh7DjoHaWRsKwhuD7nTUwA6D2FjY291bnRfaWRpA02AjDoJdHlwZUkiDGFydGljbGUGOgZFVDoIdXJsSSJTaHR0cHM6Ly9vcHRpY3MuYW5zeXMuY29tL2hjL2VuLXVzL2FydGljbGVzLzM2MDAzNDQwNjI1NC1zdGFja3J0LVNjcmlwdC1jb21tYW5kBjsIVDoOc2VhcmNoX2lkSSIpNzlmZjE2Y2EtZDYyYi00N2ZiLTg2YTctMTYyZWZiZTdjZjkzBjsIRjoJcmFua2kHOgtsb2NhbGVJIgplbi11cwY7CFQ6CnF1ZXJ5SSIMc3RhY2tydAY7CFQ6EnJlc3VsdHNfY291bnRpAmMD--efced671b60e375b22693b8592e9c051570479f7\">stackrt &#8211; Script command<\/a> since it is thin-film device without other nano structures.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;In FDTD the phase is very senstive to the mesh accuracy, and the source\/monitor locations.you can place both the source and the monitor as close to the device as possible to reduce the numerical errors.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-375622","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/375622","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\/375622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}