{"id":54394,"date":"2021-04-19T03:20:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-calculate-the-effective-index-of-bioperiodic-swg-structures\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T03:20:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T03:20:30","slug":"how-to-calculate-the-effective-index-of-bioperiodic-swg-structures","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-calculate-the-effective-index-of-bioperiodic-swg-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"How to calculate the effective index of bioperiodic SWG structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/688\/M4SAXNJ6FA55.png\" width=\"510\" height=\"280\" \/>How to calculate the effective index of biperiodic SWG structures having the same period of SWG1 and SWG2 but different in fill factor as shown in the figure above (our structure) ?nThe fill factor of SWG1=0.5, Period =200 nmnThe fill factor of SWG2=0.54, period is 200nmnWe use the example provided by Lumerical to calculate the effective refractive index of the SWG waveguide. The effective index for each SWG is calculated based on the Lumerical example which can be found in\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lumerical.com\/learn\/video\/swg-bandstructures\/\" target=\"blank\">https:\/\/www.lumerical.com\/learn\/video\/swg-bandstructures\/<\/a>nWhen we use this method to calculate the neff of the two SWG respectively and then using neff_total=neff1*0.5+neff2*0.5 to get the neff of the whole neff (here our SWG1 and SWG2 which are of same period and calculate the transmission response (theoretically)which doesn\u2019t match with 2.5 FDTD.nWhy is so mismatch happening? nSO my concern is\u00a0n1.Can we use this method to get the neff of the whole SW1+SWG2 ? n2.If the individual neff calculation is correct then how to calculate the total effective index ?.Calculating neff using lumerical examples:n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/475\/4NKT716U1X28.png\" width=\"487\" height=\"231\" \/>neff using lumerical examples:n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/017\/80CHOL7B1IV8.png\" width=\"778\" height=\"289\" \/>nnThank you in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-54394","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["26724"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":["W??W"],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2239"],"_bbp_subscription":["233972"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["54394"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["30281","188938"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["150021"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["150021"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-04-19 23:03:18"]},"test":"lizzie_leon"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/54394","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\/54394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}