Modeling Light-Matter Interaction in Photonics with COMSOL®
Duration: 59:38
Watch this archived webinar, originally hosted by IEEE Spectrum, to learn about modeling light-matter interactions with the COMSOL Multiphysics® software for photonics use cases.
In this presentation, Professor Alex Kildishev from Purdue University shares an approach for accurately modeling linear optical dispersion, nonlinear optics effects, and gain in light-matter interaction. He discusses generalizing numerical descriptions for more efficient photonics time-domain simulations, shares how to modify models with custom equations, and demonstrates modeling optical effects in the time domain.
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Chapter Selection
Introduction (0:00)
Generalizing Light-Matter Interactions for Photonics (1:57)
Introduction: Multiphysics of Light-Matter Interaction (2:39)
Introduction: Carrier Kinetics in Non-Linear Optics (4:38)
What is Saturable Absorption (SA)? (6:09)
Multiphysics Framework with Carrier Kinetics (8:46)
Setting up the Multiphysics Framework (11:00)
4-Level SA: What to Expect? (13:28)
Multiphysics Model #1: 4-Level SA (14:10)
RSA Mechanism (23:27)
RSA Numerical Modeling: Beer-Lambert Law (25:55)
Multiphysics Framework with Carrier Kinetics 2 (26:47)
4-Level RSA: What to Expect? (27:59)
Setting up the Multiphysics Framework 2 (29:38)
Multiphysics Model #2: 4-Level RSA (30:30)
Run Your Models Faster with Precision (38:33)
BDF Time-Step: “Manual” vs. “Strict” (40:06)
Time-Step “Manual”: BDF vs. Generalized Alpha (41:23)
Generalized Alpha Half-Time-Step - “Manual” vs. “Strict” (41:41)
Plasmon Enhanced RSA (42:32)
Conclusions and Outlooks (45:04)
Modeling Dispersive and Nonlinear Optics with the Wave Optics Module, an add-on to COMSOL Multiphysics® (47:31)
Ways to Model Dispersive Materials (48:17)
Optical Material Library (49:15)
Frequency-Domain Pre-Defined Dispersive Material Models (50:13)
User-Defined Functions (50:51)
Ways to Model Dispersive Materials 2 (51:40)
Drude-Lorentz Dispersion Model (52:16)
Modeling Nonlinear Optics (53:21)
Q&A (54:53)