tidy3d.CustomSourceTime

class CustomSourceTime

Bases: Pulse

Custom source time dependence consisting of a real or complex envelope modulated at a central frequency, as shown below.

Parameters:

• attrs (dict = {}) – Dictionary storing arbitrary metadata for a Tidy3D object. This dictionary can be freely used by the user for storing data without affecting the operation of Tidy3D as it is not used internally. Note that, unlike regular Tidy3D fields, attrs are mutable. For example, the following is allowed for setting an attr obj.attrs['foo'] = bar. Also note that Tidy3D` will raise a TypeError if attrs contain objects that can not be serialized. One can check if attrs are serializable by calling obj.json().

• amplitude (NonNegativeFloat = 1.0) – Real-valued maximum amplitude of the time dependence.

• phase (float = 0.0) – [units = rad]. Phase shift of the time dependence.

• freq0 (PositiveFloat) – [units = Hz]. Central frequency of the pulse.

• fwidth (PositiveFloat) – [units = Hz]. Standard deviation of the frequency content of the pulse.

• offset (float = 0.0) – Time delay of the envelope in units of 1 / (2pi * fwidth).

• source_time_dataset (Optional[TimeDataset]) – Dataset for storing the envelope of the custom source time. This envelope will be modulated by a complex exponential at frequency freq0.

Note

\[amp\_time(t) = amplitude \cdot \ e^{i \cdot phase - 2 \pi i \cdot freq0 \cdot t} \cdot \ envelope(t - offset / (2 \pi \cdot fwidth))\]

Note

Depending on the envelope, field decay may not occur. If field decay does not occur, then the simulation will run for the full run_time. Also, if field decay does not occur, then source normalization of frequency-domain monitors is not meaningful.

Note

The source time dependence is linearly interpolated to the simulation time steps. The sampling rate should be sufficiently fast that this interpolation does not introduce artifacts. The source time dependence should also start at zero and ramp up smoothly. The first and last values of the envelope will be used for times that are out of range of the provided data.

Example

>>> cst = CustomSourceTime.from_values(freq0=1, fwidth=0.1,
...     values=np.linspace(0, 9, 10), dt=0.1)

Attributes

data_times	Times of envelope definition.
attrs

Methods

amp_time(time)	Complex-valued source amplitude as a function of time.
end_time()	Time after which the source is effectively turned off / close to zero amplitude.
from_values(freq0, fwidth, values, dt)	Create a CustomSourceTime from a numpy array.

Inherited Common Usage

offset

source_time_dataset

classmethod from_values(freq0, fwidth, values, dt)

Create a CustomSourceTime from a numpy array.

Parameters:

• freq0 (float) – Central frequency of the source. The envelope provided will be modulated by a complex exponential at this frequency.

• fwidth (float) – Estimated frequency width of the source.

• values (ArrayComplex1D) – Complex values of the source envelope.

• dt (float) – Time step for the values array. This value should be sufficiently small that the interpolation to simulation time steps does not introduce artifacts.

Returns:

CustomSourceTime with envelope given by values, modulated by a complex exponential at frequency freq0. The time coordinates are evenly spaced between 0 and dt * (N-1) with a step size of dt, where N is the length of the values array.

Return type:

CustomSourceTime

property data_times

Times of envelope definition.

amp_time(time)

Complex-valued source amplitude as a function of time.

Parameters:

time (float) – Time in seconds.

Returns:

Complex-valued source amplitude at that time.

Return type:

complex

end_time()

Time after which the source is effectively turned off / close to zero amplitude.

__hash__()

Hash method.