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• date: 4 October 2026
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What you'll learn

Set up and run electromagnetic simulations using MEEP
Identify and analyze electromagnetic modes in waveguides, including TE₀, TM₀, TE₁, TM₁
Simulate photonic building blocks such as tapers, directional couplers, and waveguide bends
Evaluate the trade-offs between simulation accuracy, computational cost, and simulation complexity
Calculate and analyze the transmission and reflection coefficients of photonic systems

Requirements

Basic python programming skills (Can you answer: what are variables and functions?)
Basic photonic understanding (Can you answer: what is a waveguide)

Description

Are you ready to move beyond photonic theory and learn how to actually simulate photonic components?
In this hands-on course, you'll learn how to useMeep, a powerful open-source electromagnetic simulation tool, together with Python to model, visualize, analyze, and optimize photonic structures. Starting from a simple waveguide, you'll progressively build the skills needed to investigate increasingly sophisticated Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) building blocks.
Guided by Mattia Conti, a photonic engineer with industry experience, you'll learn how to create simulation geometries, define materials and sources, visualize electromagnetic fields, excite specific waveguide modes, and extract meaningful information from your simulations.
As the course progresses, you'll apply these techniques to realistic photonic components, including
- Waveguides
- Modal decomposition and mode overlap
- Waveguide interfaces, transmission, and reflection
- Linear, parabolic, and exponential tapers
- Directional couplers
- Wavelength‑division multiplexing (WDM)
- 90° waveguide bends
- Building‑block optimization through geometric parameter sweeps
- Simulation resolution and numerical accuracy
- Monte Carlo analysis for robust designs
- Transitioning from 2D to 3D electromagnetic simulations
This course is designed aroundlearning by doing. Rather than simply explaining what each Meep function does, you'll use simulations to investigate real photonic phenomena, formulate hypotheses, analyze results, and make design decisions.
You'll also work through practical assignments and paper-study exercises that challenge you to modify geometries, identify modes, optimize photonic components, and reproduce concepts from published research.
By the end of the course, you'll have a practical understanding of how to use Meep to simulate and analyze photonic components, interpret electromagnetic fields and modal behavior, measure transmission and reflection, and systematically optimize your designs.
Whether you're a photonics student looking to develop practical simulation skills, a researcher exploring open-source electromagnetic simulation, or an engineer who wants to add Meep to your photonic design toolkit, this course will give you a structured path from your first simulation to more advanced photonic component analysis.

Who this course is for

Graduate Students in Physics, Optics, Electrical Engineering, or Nanotechnology
Professionals Transitioning into Integrated Photonics
Researchers in Optical Communications and Quantum Technologies
Educators or Teaching Assistants in Optics/Photonics
Curious Learners with Technical Backgrounds
Semiconductor and nanophotonics researchers working with small-scale optical structures
Researchers new to computational electromagnetics

Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/simulating-photonic-components-with-meep/

   
   
   

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