The Absorber feature, which is a drop-in replacement for PML for cases involving lossy metals, is not currently supported in cylindrical coordinates. This would be a useful feature to add.
As a simple test case, a point-dipole emitter in vacuum in cylindrical coordinates should radiate the same power regardless of the boundary layers (PML or Absorber). (The radiated power can also be computed using the LDOS which is another way to validate the result obtained using the DFT flux monitors.) However, as shown below, this is not currently the case. For some reason, when the cell is terminated using an Absorber, the measured power is zero (!).
The
Absorber
feature, which is a drop-in replacement for PML for cases involving lossy metals, is not currently supported in cylindrical coordinates. This would be a useful feature to add.As a simple test case, a point-dipole emitter in vacuum in cylindrical coordinates should radiate the same power regardless of the boundary layers (PML or Absorber). (The radiated power can also be computed using the LDOS which is another way to validate the result obtained using the DFT flux monitors.) However, as shown below, this is not currently the case. For some reason, when the cell is terminated using an
Absorber
, the measured power is zero (!).1. PML
2. Absorber