{"id":163625,"date":"2021-11-01T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/calculating-group-index-in-mode\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:47:22","slug":"calculating-group-index-in-mode","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/calculating-group-index-in-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculating group index in MODE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi Lumerical, <\/p>\n<p>I am Sangyeon Cho, a post-doc researcher at MIT and Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing to ask you about the equation or method to calculate the group index of the waveguide mode. <\/p>\n<p>I am trying to simulate the structure and calculate the confinement factor and group index.<\/p>\n<div class=\"js-embed embedResponsive\" data-embedJson=\"{&quot;body&quot;:&quot;Surface plasmon lasers could improve our ability to generate and use light at nanometre scales, but they regularly suffer from optical losses that make them impractical, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths. Zhang et al.demonstrate a low-threshold surface plasmon laser that overcomes this problem.&quot;,&quot;photoUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/media.springernature.com\/m685\/springer-static\/image\/art%3A10.1038%2Fncomms5953\/MediaObjects\/41467_2014_Article_BFncomms5953_Fig1_HTML.jpg&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms5953&quot;,&quot;embedType&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;A room temperature low-threshold ultraviolet plasmonic nanolaser - Nature Communications&quot;}\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms5953\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms5953<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-163625","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["296"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["3393"],"_oembed_d0b2dd35e140555b4b25317ec6af10c8":["{{unknown}}"],"_bbp_subscription":["280419","2592"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_oembed_51b52272a8fc168f8ccb0a0090d2a1be":["{{unknown}}"],"_bbp_topic_id":["163625"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["2592","189268","280419"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["290995"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["290995"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-06-29 18:41:58"]},"test":"sangyeon_cho"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/163625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/163625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}