rectilineardataset - Script command – Lumerical Support

Creates an empty rectilinear dataset that is associate with the x/y/z coordinates (ex. E and H fields). Like matrix datasets, rectilinear datasets can be parameterized, and can contain an arbitrary number of attributes (see addattribute) and parameters (see addparameter) .

See Dataset introduction for more information.

For datasets that are not associated with the x/y/z coordinates (ex. transmission as a function of frequency), see matrixdataset .

Syntax

Description

rectilineardataset(x,y,z);

Creates a empty rectilinear dataset associated with the coordinates x/y/z.

Arguments 'x', 'y' and 'z' may be different lengths and the total number of points is the product of their lengths.

rectilineardataset("dataset_name",x,y,z);

Creates a empty rectilinear dataset named "dataset_name" associated with the coordinates x/y/z.

Arguments 'x', 'y' and 'z' may be different lengths and the total number of points is the product of their lengths.

Examples

This example creates a rectilinear dataset (with the name "Absorption") that contains 2 data attributes: the power absorption Pabs, and the refractive index n. Both attributes are a function of the spatial parameters x/y/z and frequency 'f'. To allow the user to access the frequency parameter in terms of frequency or wavelength , both frequency (f) and wavelength (c/f) are added as interdependent parameters.

Absorption = rectilineardataset("Absorption",x,y,z);
Absorption.addparameter("lambda",c/f,"f",f);
Absorption.addattribute("Pabs",Pabs);
Absorption.addattribute("refractive index",n);
visualize(Absorption); # visualize this dataset in the Visualizer

The following script code shows how to get the raw data from a frequency monitor in FDTD (using getdata), and how to manually create a dataset from that data. It also shows how to directly get the electric field dataset from the monitor in a single command (using getresult).

# monitor name
m="monitor";
# get individual data elements with getdata
x=getdata(m,"x");
y=getdata(m,"y");
z=getdata(m,"z");
f=getdata(m,"f");
Ex=getdata(m,"Ex");
Ey=getdata(m,"Ey");
Ez=getdata(m,"Ez");
# create the electric field dataset from the raw data
E_manual = rectilineardataset("E_manual",x,y,z);  # initialize dataset and provide spatial position vectors
E_manual.addparameter("lambda",c/f,"f",f);  # add additional parameter: frequency 
E_manual.addattribute("E",Ex,Ey,Ez);     # add vector electric field attribute
# all of the above commands can be avoided with a single getresult command
E_fromMonitor = getresult(m,"E");

The following script code shows how to access the data stored in the 'E_manual' dataset created in the above example

# output contents of dataset to prompt
?E_manual;
# Get parameters
x   = E_manual.x;
y   = E_manual.y;
z   = E_manual.z;
f   = E_manual.f;
lambda = E_manual.lambda;
x_1  = E_manual.x(1); 
# Get attributes. Remember that E is a vector quantity
Ex = E_manual.Ex; # Ex component
Ey = E_manual.Ey; # Ey component
Ez = E_manual.Ez; # Ez component
E2 = E_manual.E2; # |E|^2
E = E_manual.E;  # get all components in a single matrix. An extra dimension of length 3 will be added to the matrix, for each vector component.

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