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Lumerical’s design tools for Photonic components, circuits and systems Simulation
Lumerical’s DEVICE Suite, SYSTEM Suite, and Interoperability products work together seamlessly, allowing designers to model the most challenging problems in photonics that include interacting optical, electrical, and thermal effects. Flexible interoperability between suites enables a variety of workflows that combine device multiphysics and system-level photonic circuit simulation with third-party design automation and productivity tools. Interoperability further provides Python-based automation support via the Automation API and compact-library support for the industry’s leading photonics foundries.
DEVICE Multiphysics Simulation Suite
Photonic Multiphysics Simulation
Lumerical’s component design products use multiphysics-style simulation capabilities and workflows to model optical, electrical and thermal effects at the physical level.
Products:
FDTD 3D Electromagnetic Simulator
MODE Waveguide Simulator
CHARGE 3D Charge Transport Simulator
HEAT 3D Heat Transport Simulator
DGTD 3D Electromagnetic Simulator
FEEM Waveguide Simulator
STACK Optical Multilayer Simulator
SYSTEM Suite
Photonic Integrated Circuit Simulation
Lumerical’s SYSTEM Suite includes all the tools needed to simulate photonic circuits and to generate compact libraries. INTERCONNECT simulates and optimizes the performance of photonic integrated circuits. In addition to an extensive list of pre-defined elements offered by INTERCONNECT, additional elements are available with the System Library and the Laser Library. CML Compiler automates the creation, maintenance and QA testing of INTERCONNECT and Verilog-A photonic compact model libraries (CMLs). CML encryption is available via the CML Publisher+ add-on.
Interoperability Products
Interfaces, Automation, & Foundry Support Products
Lumerical products have been designed to work in conjunction with popular electronic design automation (EDA), optical design, and analysis tools. In addition, a number of foundry compact model libraries (CMLs) are available for INTERCONNECT that are calibrated against the manufacturing process offered by several semiconductor foundries. The Automation API offers Python-driven interoperability enabling Lumerical tools to interact with third-party applications and a rich set of open-source content.
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About Lumerical
Since its inception in 2003, Lumerical has pioneered breakthrough simulation technologies that help bring new photonic product concepts to life. By empowering research and product development professionals with high performance photonic design software that leverages recent advances in computing technology, Lumerical helps optical designers tackle challenging design goals and meet strict deadlines. Lumerical’s design software solutions have been licensed in more than 40 countries by global technology leaders like Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Huawei, Agilent, Olympus, and Philips, and prominent research institutions including Caltech, Harvard, Max Planck Institute, MIT, NIST, University of Tokyo and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Lumerical’s tools are among the most widely cited within the photonic community, with references in more than 10,000 scientific publications and patents.