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Lumerical’s design tools for Photonic components, circuits and systems Simulation
Lumerical’s component design products FDTD Solutions, MODE Solutions, and DEVICE use multiphysics-style simulation workflows to model optical, electrical and thermal effects at the physical level.
Lumerical’s system simulation product INTERCONNECT simulates and optimizes the performance of photonic integrated circuits.
INTERCONNECT has been designed to work in conjunction with popular electronic design automation (EDA) tools. There are also a number of foundry compact model libraries (CMLs) calibrated against the manufacturing process offered by several semiconductor foundries available for INTERCONNECT.
FDTD Solutions
Nanophotonic design environment
FDTD Solutions is a 3D Maxwell solver, capable of analyzing the interaction of UV, visible, and IR radiation with complicated structures employing wavelength scale features. FDTD Solutions empowers designers to confront the most challenging photonic design problems. Rapid prototyping and highly-accurate simulations reduce reliance upon costly experimental prototypes, leading to a quicker assessment of design concepts and reduced product development costs.
MODE Solutions
Waveguide design environment
Supporting an eigenmode solver as well as various methods for simulating guided propagation of optical fields over long distances, MODE Solutions is an ideal tool for the design, analysis and optimization of guided components. The eigenmode solver accurately calculates the physical properties of guided modes in truly arbitrary waveguide geometries.
DEVICE
Multiphysics photonics design platform
An advanced finite element Multiphysics simulation environment for modeling charge transport (CT), heat transfer (HT) and Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain (DGTD) based method Maxwell solver (independently or self-consistently) in semiconductor devices and optoelectronic components.
Using advanced finite-element mesh generation algorithms, DEVICE CT, HT and DGTD are capable of efficiently handling arbitrary geometries, enabling accurate modeling of innovative integrated optoelectronic designs.
INTERCONNECT
PIC design and simulation platform
INTERCONNECT is a photonic integrated circuit design environment that enables the design, simulation and analysis of photonic integrated circuits. Complex and large scale optoelectronic circuits can be easily and reliably designed and analyzed using circuit elements within a hierarchical schematic editor.
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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.