Meep is a software package for electromagnetic simulation using the finite-difference time-domain method.
It’s designed for modelling a wide range of electromagnetic problems, with programmable interfaces for Python, Scheme, and C++, support for one, two, three dimensional and cylindrical simulations, and tools for studying materials, sources, fields, resonant modes, and inverse design workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses the finite-difference time-domain method for electromagnetic simulations.
- Provides scriptable interfaces for Python, Scheme, and C++.
- Supports simulations in one, two, three dimensional, and cylindrical coordinates.
- Offers distributed-memory parallelism on systems supporting MPI.
- Includes support for complex material models including anisotropic, dispersive, nonlinear, conductive, saturable, and gyrotropic media.
- Provides perfectly matched layer absorbing boundaries, Bloch-periodic boundaries, and perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
- Supports field import and export using the HDF5 data format.
- Includes GDSII import for planar geometries.
- Offers field analysis tools including Poynting flux, mode decomposition, energy density, near-to-far transformations, local density of states, modal volume, scattering cross section, and Maxwell stress tensor calculations.
- Includes an adjoint solver for inverse design and topology optimization.
Website: github.com/NanoComp/meep
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Developer: NanoComp
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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