# Si/SiO2 slab TE waveguide transmission vs Tidy3D

<span class="validation-badge">validated · 2026-08-28</span>

<div class="case-meta"><span>forward</span><span>resolution 1</span><span>parity</span><span>p1</span><span>pic</span><span>waveguide</span><span>tidy3d_golden</span><span>high_yield</span></div>

This case compares a local FDTDX result with pinned reference data generated by Tidy3D. The originating Tidy3D example is [`ModalSourcesMonitors.ipynb`](https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d-notebooks/blob/c37c785d52e9258c9d048a781524b8e8d7c758ca/ModalSourcesMonitors.ipynb), pinned at commit `c37c785d52e9`.

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:alt: Technical schematic associated with Si/SiO2 slab TE waveguide transmission vs Tidy3D

Integrated-photonics geometries covered by the benchmark suite.
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## What is exercised

Lossless slab should transmit ~1.0. FDTDX via calculate_sparam / mode overlap.

This case runs at its declared full benchmark resolution (resolution factor 1.0).



## Recorded result

| Metric | Observed / error | Reference / limit | Error | Effective budget | Result |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `T_far` | 1.00005 | 1 | 5.319e-05 | 0.1 | <span class="metric-pass">PASS</span> |

The table is rendered from `progress.json`; it is not a hand-written success claim. For metrics that report an error directly, the “observed” column repeats that error and the reference column is the acceptance threshold.

## Reproduce

```bash
uv run fdtdx-bench run --case parity_waveguide_TE
```

Implementation and provenance: `benchmarks/cases/parity_waveguide_TE/case.yaml`, `benchmarks/cases/parity_waveguide_TE/run.py`, `benchmarks/goldens/parity_waveguide_TE.npz`.

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