{"id":361247,"date":"2024-04-09T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/interconnect-lumerical\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:30:22","slug":"interconnect-lumerical","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/interconnect-lumerical\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERCONNECT LUMERICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, I wanted to ask a support related to the need of inserting the correct values of effective index in a Lumerical interconnect model for a MZI.<br \/>Seems that in Interconnect you cannot launche a mode-source that takes into account the fundamental mode TE or TM supported by the waveguide.<br \/>So you can insert in the object &#8220;straight waveguide&#8221; the values called : effective index, group index and dispersion.<\/p>\n<p>How I can put the correct ones in this object? It is &#8220;enough&#8221; to estimate them at a certain frequency ( because I cannot give more than one value in input) from FDE solver and then wrote it in the object?<br \/>I don&#8217;t know if it is enough accurate..but I don&#8217;t know other solutions..<br \/>Also it is not possible to set the cover and cladding index in Interconnet?<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/09-04-2024-1712651380-mceclip0.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Thanks and I hope you can give me a feedback,<br \/>Davide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-361247","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["292628","50911"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.146"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["273"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["361247"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["50911","292628"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["361496"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["361496"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-04-10 10:27:41"]},"test":"d-monopoli3phd-poliba-it"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/361247","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\/361247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}