Meep
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A package for FDTD electromagnetic simulation, written and run through Python (as well as Scheme and C++). It supports 1D, 2D, 3D and cylindrical calculations, anisotropic, dispersive and nonlinear materials, PML absorbing boundaries and parallel computing with MPI. It includes mode decomposition, near-to-far field transformation and an adjoint solver for inverse design of components. It is used mainly in research and in designing optical and photonic devices. The recommended installation is through Conda.
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| Licence type | Completely Free, Open Source |
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| Licence terms | Open-source licence (GPL-2.0). Free for any purpose including commercial work, with no time limit, no registration and no licence key. There is no native Windows installation; use WSL with Ubuntu. |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS |
| Engineering field | Electrical & Electronics |
| Tool type | Simulation & FEA |
| Vendor site | meep.readthedocs.io |
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Last verified: 2026-10-05
