Vir­tual­Lab Fusion Appli­ca­ti­ons, Tech­no­logy & Workflows

Dura­tion and Inten­ded Audience:

• 4 hours per day | 2 days in sum
• Addi­tio­nal 30 minu­tes tech­ni­cal check on first trai­ning day

Tech­ni­cal Environment:

• The online trai­ning will be imple­men­ted with the plat­form “GoTo­Mee­ting”.
• Detailed tech­ni­cal ins­truc­tions will be pro­vi­ded to par­ti­ci­pants in time before training.

Con­tent

Gra­tings are the most widely applied dif­frac­tive optics ele­ments in various opti­cal sys­tems. Vir­tual­Lab Fusion soft­ware pro­vi­des the Fou­rier modal method (FMM a.k.a. RCWA) and the thin ele­ment appro­xi­ma­tion (TEA) for gra­ting simu­la­ti­ons. This inter­ac­tive online trai­ning shows how to use the cor­re­spon­ding tech­no­lo­gies from Vir­tual­Lab Fusion to solve prac­ti­cal gra­ting mode­ling and design tasks for modern optics applications.

In the trai­ning, we will of course work with our latest released ver­sion, 2023.1!

Lear­ning outcomes

• Learn how to con­s­truct the gra­ting geo­me­try and mate­ri­als; under­stand the basic theory of the mode­ling tech­no­lo­gies and their dif­fe­ren­ces; use the soft­ware tools for gra­ting ana­ly­sis and design.
• Prac­tice hands-on with sel­ec­ted rigo­rous mode­ling examp­les, inclu­ding bla­zed gra­ting, rec­tan­gu­lar gra­ting, slan­ted gra­ting, holo­gra­phic volume gra­ting, and metagrating.
• Design work­flow dis­cus­sed along examp­les, like moth-eye anti-reflec­tion gra­ting, wave­guide cou­pling gra­ting, pola­riza­tion-insen­si­tive pulse com­pres­sor gra­ting, and beam-split­ting metagrating.

Please note: Half­way through each day there will be a short break. The orga­niza­tion of the time during the trai­ning will be adjus­ted on the spot, as it depends on the dyna­mics of the group on the day.