Achieve more with light.Comprehensive suite of leading photonic design tools.

Component DesignMultiphysics Component DesignLumerical’s highly integrated suite of component design tools is purpose-built to investigate and understand complex multiphysics effects occurring in photonic devices. Designers can combine a vast collection of finite-difference and finite-element optical engines with charge and heat transport solvers to model opto-thermal and electro-optic effects in two and three dimensions.

System & Circuit DesignPhotonic Integrated Circuit DesignLumerical’s INTERCONNECT allows designers to define circuit architecture and connectivity, build new or import foundry compact model libraries (CMLs), and simulate the performance of photonic integrated circuits. Designers can integrate photonic circuit simulations into schematic or layout driven design flows and tools for electronic and photonic circuits.

Application OverviewAPPLICATIONS

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Nanophotonics Plasmonics Metamaterials Photonic Crystals & Diffractive Optics Particle & Surface Scattering Microscopy & Lithography Other Nanophotonic Applications Photonic Integrated Circuits Passive Components Modulators Photodetectors CMOS Image Sensors Solar Cells LED/OLED Nonlinear Optics Graphene & Other Applications

FDTD SolutionsFDTD Solutions is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes, and materials. This finely-tuned implementation of the FDTD method delivers reliable, powerful, and scalable solver performance over a broad spectrum of applications. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing, and optimization routines ‒ allowing you to focus on your design and leave the rest to us.

Product Features

NANOPHOTONIC MAXWELL’S SOLVER

Key ApplicationsCMOS Image Sensors

Diffractive Optics

OLEDs

Metamaterials• 3D CAD environment and parameterizable simulation objects allow for rapid model iterations

• Multi-coefficient models for accurate material modeling over large wavelength ranges

• Non-linear materials and spatially variable anisotropy

• Powerful post-processing capability, including far-field projections, band structure analysis, BSDF generation, Q-factor analysis and charge generation rate

• Interoperability with all Lumerical tools through the Lumerical scripting language and APIs

Photonic Crystals

Key Applications

MODE SolutionsWhether you are working on fiber optics or integrated photonics, MODE Solutions has everything you need to get the most out of your waveguide and coupler designs. The Bidirectional Eigenmode expansion and varFDTD engines easily handle both large planar structures and long propagation lengths, providing accurate spatial field, modal frequency, and overlap analysis.

• Powerful 3D CAD environment allows parameterizable objects, extensive geometry import options, and scripting automation

• Advanced conformal mesh: achieve high accuracy, even with coarse meshes, thanks to submesh geometry sensitivity

• Bend loss, confinement factor, and modal area analysis

• Simulate large planar waveguides with the accuracy of 3D FDTD at 2D simulation speeds, with the varFDTD solver

• Interoperable with Lumerical tools: simulate optical components using optical, electrical, and thermal multiphysics

WAVEGUIDE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT

Tapers

Electro-optic modulators

Couplers and resonators

Thermal tuning and switching

Product Features

Fibers

Key Applications

DEVICE DGTDBROADBAND OPTICAL SIMULATION

Chromatic Polarization

Photothermal Heating

Product Features• Accurately model low-loss metallic

structures over broad wavelength ranges with finite element mesh and broadband multi-coefficient material models

• Higher order method with variable polynomial order gives maximum control over simulation time and accuracy

• Simple, flexible and powerful CAD environment for building components, and automated partitioning of material domains with sources and monitors definable on arbitrary surfaces

• Includes all of Lumerical’s standard productivity tools: far field and grating projections, scripting, sweeps and optimizations, and support for concurrent computing

Nanoparticle Scattering

Metamaterials

DEVICE DGTD tackles the most challenging classes of nanophotonic simulations with a finite element Maxwell’s solver based on the discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method. When accuracy is mission-critical, DGTD provides superior performance, independent of geometry complexity, within a design environment specifically engineered for multiphysics simulation work flows.

Surface Relief Gratings

Key Applications

DEVICE CTBuilt on the finite element drift-diffusion method, DEVICE CT provides designers with the correct tools for comprehensive charge transport simulation in active photonic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices. Coupled with Lumerical’s suite of solvers, DEVICE CT enables accelerated modeling and analysis of components where the complex interaction of optical, electronic, and thermal phenomena is critical to performance.

SEMICONDUCTOR CHARGE TRANSPORT

Photovoltaics

Electro-optic modulators

Image Sensors

Avalanche Photodiodes

• 2D/3D steady-state, transient, and linearized frequency domain simulation

• characterize IV behaviours at steady-state

• characterize device bandwidth and large signal transient response

• Built-in library of comprehensive semiconductor material models incorporating temperature, doping, and high-field effects

• Support for abrupt and graded heterostructures

• Isothermal, non-isothermal, and self-consistent simulation with DEVICE HT

• Incorporate external sources of photo-generated carriers from optical simulations

Product Features

Semiconductor Devices

Key Applications

DEVICE HTDeveloped to investigate multiphysics effects occurring in highly integrated optoelectronic devices, DEVICE HT provides comprehensive thermal modeling capability. The finite-element heat transfer and Joule heating solver easily handles conductive, convective, and radiative effects, as well as optically and electrically generated heat, enabling engineers to have confidence in the stability and reliability of their designs.

SOLID-STATE HEAT TRANSPORT

• 2D/3D steady-state and transient response

• Self-consistent electrical conduction option for simulation of Joule heating

• Comprehensive library of material models, including non-linear effects

• Standard boundary conditions to define power transfer, convective and radiative cooling

• Couples with DEVICE CT for self-consistent opto-thermal modeling

Thermal waveguide tuning

Low-loss optical switches

Waveguide integrated biosensors

Product Features Photothermal heating

Heat flow in solids

Key Applications

INTERCONNECTLumerical’s photonic integrated circuit simulator verifies multimode, bidirection, and multichannel PICs. Creating your project in our PIC schematic editor, you can use our extensive library of customizable elements to perform analysis in the time or frequency domain.

Product Features• Hierarchical schematic editor• Circuit solver• Extensive library of PIC elements• Visualization and data analysis• Compact model generation and

management, imported from all Lumerical tools

• EDA and PDA interoperability

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SIMULATION

Photonic Integrated Circuits

WDM Circuits

Optical Transceivers

Modulators

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Laser Cavity Design

• Support for publishing foundry Process Design Kits (PDK)

• Use measured data and component-level simulations to develop and maintain calibrated Compact Model Libraries (CMLs) for foundry PDKs

Process Design Kits

INTEROPERABILITY

Third-Party Interoperability

• Simulate and optimize photonic circuits within familiar EDA and PDA design tools and flows

• Accelerate design and improve reliability

Automation APIsAvailable for all of our tools, Lumerical’s Automation APIs drive multi-product simulations and workflow integration through Lumerical, Python and MATLAB scripts.

Lumerical offers built-in integration with industry-leading EDA & PDA tools

MATLAB ScriptingType MATLAB commands directly into the Lumerical script prompt to seamlessly take advantage of the full range of MATLAB functions.

• Seamlessly exchange field and power information• Import raysets to FDTD Solutions and MODE Solutions as sources

Combine nano-optic and meso-optic simulations thanks to native interoperability with OpticStudio™

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