Here's a step-by-step tutorial to get you started with Lumerical FDTD:

In the tutorial, they’d explained how a broadband dipole shows you the spectrum, and how finely resolved frequency-domain field monitors reveal mode shapes. Mira started with that. She inserted a broadband Gaussian source and a frequency-domain field monitor around the defect. The first run returned the usual—several broad peaks where theory said there should be modes. No whisper.

Before clicking buttons, it is essential to understand what the software is doing. The FDTD method solves Maxwell’s equations in time and space. It divides the simulation volume into a rectangular grid (the ).