changelog

0.14.0 - 2025-06-20

What's Changed

New

• Bump sax + ruff + pyright refactoring #49

Other changes

• Definition of plane_center for bend mode solving #48
• Implementation of Polygon2D variant for Geometry2D #47
• Change logo #46

Full Changelog: https://github.com/flaport/meow/compare/0.13.0...0.14.0

Changes

0.13.0 - 2025-04-13

What's Changed

New

• Add precision

Bug Fixes

• Fix deps
• Fix notebook

Documentation

• Update docs Makefile

Dependency Updates

• Update bumpversion config
• Merge pull request #45 from joamatab/update_tidy3d
• Update tidyed
• Update github workflows
• Update dependencies
• Update github workflows
• Update github ci

Changes

0.12.0 - 2025-02-13

What's Changed

New

• Merge pull request #42 from flaport/40-documentation-suggestions
• DOC: Documentation additions + nbstripout

Dependency Updates

• Update dependencies
• Merge pull request #43 from joamatab/numpy2_compat
• Update to numpy2

Changes

0.11.2 - 2024-08-06

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Merge pull request #38 from joamatab/patch-1
• Merge branch 'main' into patch-1

Changes

0.11.1 - 2024-08-04

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Update gds_structures.py
• Update requirements

Other changes

• Better equality check
• Don't use Self for now

Changes

0.11.0 - 2024-06-20

What's Changed

New

• Merge pull request #36 from flaport/pydantic-v2

Bug Fixes

• Fix tests

Documentation

• Update docs

Maintenance

• Improve serialization and caching

Other changes

• Exclusively support pydantic v2

Changes

0.10.0 - 2024-06-15

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix tests
• Fix notebook

Other changes

• Works for gdsfactory8

Changes

0.9.0 - 2024-01-19

What's Changed

New

• Adopt new sax backend format

Bug Fixes

• Merge pull request #34 from flaport/sax0.11-compatibility
• Fix by manually converting to scoo

Dependency Updates

• Pin sax

Changes

0.8.1 - 2023-09-19

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Bump tidy3d

Changes

0.8.0 - 2023-09-05

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Bump sax dependency

Changes

0.7.3 - 2023-08-30

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix notebooks

Dependency Updates

• Update dependencies
• Bump pydantic to v2 using pydantic.v1

Changes

0.7.2 - 2023-08-04

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Merge pull request #31 from joamatab/pin_pydantic
• Pin pydantic

Changes

0.7.1 - 2023-07-09

What's Changed

Other changes

• Explicit imports of objects in init

Changes

0.7.0 - 2023-07-06

What's Changed

New

• Add Structure utility function which creates either a Structure2D or a Structure3D depending on the geometry given
• Add 2D geometries

Bug Fixes

• Fix remaining tests
• Fix notebooks
• Fix syntax error
• Merge pull request #27 from flaport/te_fraction_patch
• Patch problem with complex index in te_fraction

Documentation

• Update cell docstring
• Update mmi test notebook
• Make test notebooks runnable

Dependency Updates

• Update .gitignore
• Update tidy3d.py to ignore eps spec

Maintenance

• Minor refactoring on calculating material array
• Improve cell to be able to handle 2D structures

Other changes

• Make propagation work with decoupled cross-sections
• Make lumerical fde work
• Make eme work for decoupled cross-sections
• Move ez_interfaces setting to mesh settings
• Sort final eme result ports
• Structure -> Structure3D, Structure2D
• Deprecate Mesh2d in favor of Mesh2D
• Remove unused line

Changes

0.6.9 - 2023-06-26

What's Changed

New

• Add ez_boundaries option to create_cells function

Dependency Updates

• Update meshing comparison

Changes

0.6.8 - 2023-06-23

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix Pointing field plot

Maintenance

• Improve ez boundaries by including them into Cell in stead of CrossSection

Changes

0.6.7 - 2023-06-22

Changes

0.6.6 - 2023-06-22

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix some meshing issues and normalize modes properly

Changes

0.6.5 - 2023-06-19

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix material serialization/deserialization

Changes

0.6.4 - 2023-06-19

What's Changed

New

• Add edge case for better meshing
• Merge pull request #22 from flaport/materials
• Add support for tidy3d materials
• Add support for tidy3d materials

Bug Fixes

• Merge pull request #21 from flaport/fix-typing
• Merge fix-typing into propagation

Maintenance

• Make type checker happy

Other changes

• Tolerance to klu not being present
• Use Optional instead of | to maintain compatibility to python<3.10

Changes

0.6.3 - 2023-06-18

What's Changed

New

• Add field interpolation
• Add lumerical dielectric interfaces

Changes

0.6.2 - 2023-06-18

What's Changed

Other changes

• Proper mesh locations

Changes

0.6.1 - 2023-06-17

What's Changed

New

• Better meshing implementation

Bug Fixes

• Fix lumerical field extraction

Documentation

• Updates to better meshing notebook
• Update test notebook
• Format notebooks with black

Dependency Updates

• Update parameter naming for PML filtering
• Update .gitignore

Other changes

• Minor visualization tweaks
• Allow forcing Ez on dielectric boundaries

Changes

0.6.0 - 2023-06-15

What's Changed

New

• Add cached_property

Documentation

• Minor updates to notebooks

Maintenance

• Minor cleanup of Material internals

Changes

0.5.6 - 2023-06-13

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Temporary fix for mutiplication and division

Other changes

• Allow specifying plot width to visualize modes
• Reject pml modes when using meow

Changes

0.5.5 - 2023-06-09

What's Changed

Other changes

• Allow overriding cell length when calculating s-matrix

Changes

0.5.4 - 2023-06-09

What's Changed

New

• Add pml filtering function

Changes

0.5.3 - 2023-06-09

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Make it possible to patch in custom visualization functions into mw.visualize/mw.vis
• Attempt to fix github workflows

Changes

0.5.2 - 2023-06-08

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Attempt to fix github workflows
• Add title_prefix argument to mode visualization function

Documentation

• Update README

Other changes

• Allow phase keyword for S, pm visualization

Changes

0.5.1 - 2023-06-07

What's Changed

Maintenance

• Improve visualization functions

Changes

0.5.0 - 2023-06-07

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Conjugate the nontransposed lr/rl matrix.

Other changes

• Ensure reciprocity should not involve a hermitian transpose
• Don't take real part when using unconjugated

Changes

0.4.3 - 2023-06-06

What's Changed

Other changes

• Increase json serialization accuracy

Changes

0.4.2 - 2023-06-06

What's Changed

Other changes

• Minor rewrite of compute_modes

Changes

0.4.1 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Other changes

• Default to double precision for tidy3d fde

Changes

0.4.0 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Maintenance

• Better auto formatting

Other changes

• Allow setting bend_radius to None

Changes

0.3.11 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Other changes

• Ignore UserWarnings when plotting mode contours

Changes

0.3.10 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Other changes

• Ignore RuntimeWarnings when doing shapely intersections

Changes

0.3.9 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Other changes

• Fall back on gdspy if shapely has difficulties extruding polygon
• Mmi

Changes

0.3.8 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix some typing issues

Changes

0.3.7 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix imports and revert zero_phase function

Changes

0.3.6 - 2023-06-05

What's Changed

New

• Add visualization for multiple modes
• Add function to create lumerical geometries

Bug Fixes

• Fix matrix splitting
• Fix publish workflow
• Fix github workflows
• Merge pull request #16 from Jan-David-Black/main

Documentation

• Move propagate guts out of notebook
• Update docs
• Update docs

Other changes

• Propagate eme flags everywhere and set default values globally
• Allow both inner products, default to conjugate transpose version
• Make some changes to overlap calculation. Validation still pending
• Slightly better visualization
• Allow pml with lumerical fde
• With pre-commit hooks:
• Visual propagation result
• First propagation attempts
• L2r and r2l matrices
• Avoid phase dependence in interfaces
• Just use condaforge/mambaforge container for workflows
• Just use condaforge/mambaforge container for workflows
• Correct Typo i->j

Changes

0.3.5 - 2023-06-01

What's Changed

Other changes

• Make eme work with unequal number of modes in each slice
• Allow interface matrix calc for diff num of modes
• Convenience functions for Mode arithmetics

Changes

0.3.4 - 2023-05-24

What's Changed

New

• Add packaging dependency

Bug Fixes

• Merge pull request #11 from Jan-David-Black/main

Other changes

• Misspelled version
• Check tidy3d Version
• Fill in zero valued off-diagonal epsilon

Changes

0.3.3 - 2023-05-24

What's Changed

Maintenance

• Improve extrusions

Changes

0.3.2 - 2023-05-23

What's Changed

Maintenance

• Slightly clean up compute_s_matrix_sax

Changes

0.3.1 - 2023-05-23

What's Changed

Other changes

• Propagations should not take absolute value

Changes

0.3.0 - 2023-05-18

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix checks in meow.fde.lumerical

Dependency Updates

• Make matplotlib and trimesh kind-off optional dependencies

Changes

0.2.0 - 2023-04-24

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Clean up dependencies

Changes

0.1.5 - 2023-04-04

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Pin tidy3d to version > 2

Changes

0.1.4 - 2023-04-04

What's Changed

New

• Merge pull request #8 from Jan-David-Black/6
• Add mode area calculation (and integration util)
• Add taper length sweep example

Bug Fixes

• Eme: workaround for bug in sax multimode
• Fix dependencies and tests
• Fix cache deletion for threaded applications
• Fix array hash

Dependency Updates

• Merge pull request #5 from joamatab/remove_gdspy_dep
• Remove gdspy dependency

Other changes

• Include Poynting Vector calculation
• Switch from tidy3d-beta to tidy3d

Changes

0.1.3 - 2022-11-30

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix complex number deserialization

Changes

0.1.2 - 2022-11-23

What's Changed

Other changes

• Don't sort modes by default
• Enable cache by default

Changes

0.1.1 - 2022-11-23

What's Changed

New

• Introduce a cache

Other changes

• Disable cache by default

Changes

0.1.0 - 2022-11-19

What's Changed

Other changes

• Specify conformal settings as part of mesh settings

Changes

0.0.10 - 2022-11-18

What's Changed

Maintenance

• Improve serialization again

Changes

0.0.9 - 2022-11-17

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix float format

Other changes

• Keep derived variables truly hidden

Changes

0.0.8 - 2022-11-17

What's Changed

Other changes

• Ensure models have json schema

Changes

0.0.7 - 2022-11-15

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix multi-dimensional material parsing

Changes

0.0.6 - 2022-11-13

What's Changed

Dependency Updates

• Update requirements

Changes

0.0.5 - 2022-11-11

What's Changed

Other changes

• Remove weird list-inheritance
• Don't track nbs_fail folder
• Use correct version of myst_nb

Changes

0.0.4 - 2022-11-11

What's Changed

Bug Fixes

• Fix material parsing

Documentation

• Improve pydantic docs

Dependency Updates

• Update conda environment file

Other changes

• Make te-fraction an easy to access property of a mode.

Changes

0.0.3 - 2022-11-10

What's Changed

Documentation

• Improve docs

Other changes

• More explicit backends
• Use latest tidy3d version
• Use latest sax version

Changes

0.0.2 - 2022-11-10

What's Changed

New

• Add notebook integration tests

Bug Fixes

• Fix serialization/deserialization
• Fix broken links in intro notebook
• Fix pypi upload

Documentation

• Update readme

Changes

0.0.1 - 2022-11-09

What's Changed

New

• Add publish logic
• Add mapbox-earcut dependency (#2)
• .gitignore added

Bug Fixes

• Fix docs patches
• Fix .bumpversion config
• Docs: fix binder/colab links

Documentation

• Update readme
• Build docs in ci

Maintenance

• Merge pull request #1 from joamatab/sourcery/main
• 'Refactored by Sourcery'

Other changes

• Remove wrong import
• Meow

Changes