Movie Monitor

Movie monitors capture a desired field component over the region spanned by the monitor for the

duration of the simulation. Movie monitors are only available in the two dimensional variety (and

only z-normal for propagator simulations). The resultant movies are saved with the same name as

the monitor in the current working directory.

The video will be captured for the plasmonic surface after movie monitor will run the simulation.

The range of the movie monitor will 0-16 minutes. The movie monitor will capture all the

components within this range for plasmonic surface. The video will be played for Plasmonic

surface and the movie monitor will capture the desired field component over the specified range.

The video can be saved with the same name as the monitor in the current working directory.

Optimization Plan

Optimization is done by running a large number of simulations with an advanced optimization

algorithm. This particularly useful if there are multiple parameters to optimize. This can be much

more efficient than running a parameter sweep, particularly if there is more than one parameter to

optimize. The same example used in the section "Optimization" will be re-generated in this page.

Using script commands to generate the optimization is a convenient way when users already have

the parameters at their hands.

There is another technique that can be used for optimization.

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a population based stochastic optimization technique,

inspired by the social behavior of flocks of birds or schools of fish [1,2], and has widely been used

for various kinds of design optimization problems [2] including nanophotonic design [3-7]. In
PSO, the potential solutions, called particles, are initialized at random positions, and then move

within the parameter search space. The particles are subject to three forces as they move:

1.Spring force towards the personal best position, p, ever achieved by that individual particle

2.Spring force towards the global best position, g, ever achieved by any particle.

3.A frictional force, proportional to the velocity.

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Trans. Antennas and Propagat. 52, pp.397 - 407 (2004).

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and applications, Information Science Reference, 2010.

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4. M. Kawano and J. Pond, "Design Optimization of Photonic Crystal Organic Solar Cells using

the FDTD method in Combination with Particle Swarm Optimization," 7th International

Conference on Optics-photonics Design & Fabrication, Yokohama, Japan, 19S1-14, 2010.

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