Lossy-metal half-space reflectance vs Tidy3D

Lossy-metal half-space reflectance vs Tidy3D#

validated · 2026-08-28

forwardresolution 1parityp1metalconductortidy3d_goldenhigh_yield

This case compares a local FDTDX result with pinned reference data generated by Tidy3D.

Technical schematic associated with Lossy-metal half-space reflectance vs Tidy3D

Representative dispersive material response.#

What is exercised#

High-σ half-space should be nearly perfectly reflecting. T=S_T/S0, R=1-T.

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

Recorded result#

Metric

Observed / error

Reference / limit

Error

Effective budget

Result

reflectance_R

1

0.999973

2.730e-05

0.0399995

PASS

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#

uv run fdtdx-bench run --case parity_metal_reflect

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

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