Ansys Lumerical Photonics Simulation & Design Software
Simulating light’s interactions for the design of photonic components and systems
Photonics Business Value
Ansys Lumerical's comprehensive suite of photonics simulation and analysis tools offers component-level and system-level simulations to optimize performance, minimize physical prototyping costs and reduce time-to-market. Enhanced design flows enable designers with compact models calibrated to leading foundry processes.
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High Level Features
Ansys Lumerical, a complete photonics simulation software solution, enables the design of photonics components, circuits, and systems. Device and system level tools work together seamlessly allowing designers to model interacting optical, electrical, and thermal effects. Flexible interoperability between products enables a variety of workflows that combine device multiphysics and photonic circuit simulation with third-party design automation and productivity tools. Python-based automation and flows for building and using compact models support the industry’s leading foundries.
Device-level Tools
Use multiphysics-style simulation capabilities and workflows to model optical, electrical and thermal effects at the physical level.
System-level Tools
Simulate and optimize the performance of photonic integrated circuits and generate compact model libraries.
Photonics Simulation
The 2022 R2 release of Ansys Lumerical introduces a series of powerful new capabilities to extend usability, accuracy, performance, and functionality across its family of products.
- Developments to optical solver cores and HPC performances
- New workflows for modeling a variety of sub-wavelength structures in Lumerical optical solvers and then optimizing the macro-scale design in Zemax to see how it looks to a human using Speos
- Improved simulation workflows for EAMs and LEDs with multi-quantum wells, as well as for single-photon avalanche photodetectors
- Streamlined design of photonic devices and circuits by using the new capabilities in our process-aware custom component design flow and EPDA flow
- Advancements to INTERCONNECT and Photonic Verilog-A models generated by CML Compiler .
- New qINTERCONNECT solver for modeling quantum behavior in photonic integrated circuits
For details, please see our release notes .
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Photonics Products
FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes, and materials.
- Multi-coefficient models create accurate material modeling
- Simulate nonlinear and spatially varying anisotropic materials
- Utilize scripting, advanced pos-processing and optimization routines
MODE has everything you need to get the most out of your waveguide and coupler designs.
- Advanced conformal mesh for high simulation accuracy
- Variational FDTD propagation for large planar waveguides (varFDTD solver)
- Eigenmode analysis for large propagation lengths (EME solver)
- Finite Difference Eigenmode analysis (FDE solver)
CHARGE provides designers with the correct tools for comprehensive charge transport simulation in semiconductor devices.
- Finite element Poisson/drift-diffusion solver
- Steady-state, small signal AC and transient simulation
- Isothermal, non-isothermal and electro-thermal simulation
- Comprehensive semiconductor material models
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Automated finite element mesh generation
Built on the finite element method, HEAT provides designers with comprehensive thermal modeling capabilities.
- Steady-state and transient simulation
- Comprehensive thermal material models
- Study conductive, convective and radiative effects
- Joule heating from electrical conduction
- Automatic mesh refinement based on import heat profiles
DGTD tackles the most challenging classes of nanophotonic simulations with a finite element Maxwell's solver.
- Object-conformal finite element mesh, free of staircasing
- Accurate control with higher order mesh polynomials
- Far-field and grating projections
- Gaussian vector beams
FEEM provides superior accuracy and performance scaling with a finite element Maxwell's solver.
- Accurate results for curved waveguide geometries
- Superior performance scaling with high order mesh polynomials
- Spatially varying index perturbations for modeling active devices
MQW simulates quantum mechanical behavior in atomically thin semiconductor layers.
- Fully coupled quantum mechanical structure calculation
- Wavefunction and band diagram calculation
- Gain and spontaneous emission
- Incorporates temperature, field and strain effects
STACK is an ideal solution for the rapid analysis of thin film multilayer stacks.
- Ideal for prototyping thin film applications
- Plane-wave and dipole illumination functions
- Captures interference and microcavity effects
- Export surface models, including bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) and diffraction gratings, to Ansys Speos for human perception analysis
Based on the Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis method, Lumerical RCWA complements Lumerical FDTD and STACK by providing a rapid simulation of light scattering for periodic and multilayer structures.
- Plane-wave illumination
- Ideal for prototyping photonic crystals and diffraction gratings
- Evaluating power and phase in each grating order of the structure
- Evaluating the fraction of incident power that is transmitted and reflected
- Capturing the distribution of electric and magnetic fields inside and outside a multilayer structure
Enables proven, automated, cross-simulator photonic compact model library (CML) generation.
- CMLs support multiple EDPA workflows
- IP protected INTERCONNECT and Verilog-A models from a single data source
- High-quality compact models for frequency and time domain simulations
- Generate statistically enabled libraries
Enables multi-mode, multi-channel and bidirectional photonic circuit modelling when used in conjunction with industry’s leading EDA simulators.
- Facilitates design and implementation of electronic-photonic integrated systems
- Bidirectional optical port
- Scalable optical channels and modes through CML Compiler model generation
- Supports schematic driven layout
Ansys Lumerical’s photonic integrated circuit simulator verifies multimode, bidirectional and multi-channel PICs.
- Hierarchical schematic editor
- Frequency domain analysis in circuit solver
- Transient sample and block mode simulators
- Multi-mode and multi-channel support
- PIC element libraries for laser and system modeling
- Simulate effects of self-heating on semiconductor laser performance
- Integrations with Virtuoso, Siemens EDA, and KLayout
Capabilities
Ansys Lumerical's photonics simulation and design capabilities enable engineers to model nanophotonics devices, circuits, processes, and materials.
- Circuit-level Simulation
- Nanophotonic Component-Level Simulation
- 3D CAD Environment with Post-Processing Capabilities
- PDK Workflows
- Automation and Scripting Support
- Laser Workflows
- Photonic Inverse Design with lumopt
- Compact Model Generation
Our solutions work together seamlessly so you can model the most challenging problems in photonics. Flexible interoperability between tools enables a variety of workflows that combine device multiphysics and system-level photonic circuit simulation with third-party design automation and productivity tools.
A 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, all allowing you to focus on your design.
3D CAD environments with parameterizable simulation objects allow for rapid model iterations. Build 2D and 3D models, define custom surfaces and volumes and import geometry from standard CAD and IC layout formats.
Ansys’ photonic integrated circuit (PIC) simulation tools work in conjunction with industry-leading electronic design automation (EDA) simulators to facilitate the design and implementation of electronic–photonic integrated systems. Electronic–photonic design automation (EPDA) workflows are available with Virtuoso® and Siemens EDA.
Build, run, and control simulations across multiple Lumerical tools, or interface with third-party applications. Leverage Lumerical scripting language, Matlab, or Python to make use of numerical analysis, visualization, optimization, and more.
Lumerical offers an integrated set of tools to model many common edge-emitting laser topologies. The hybrid modeling approach combines the accuracy of physical simulation with the performance and scale of photonic integrated circuit simulation. Design and model everything from SOAs and standalone FP and DFB lasers to complex external cavity DBR and ring or sampled grating Vernier lasers.
Automatically discover optimal geometries for a desired target performance and discover non-intuitive geometries to optimize performance, minimize area and improve manufacturability. Use shape-based or topology optimization and simulate performance to find the best solution.
Proven, automated, cross-simulator photonic compact model library (CML) generation. CML Compiler automates the creation, maintenance and QA testing of INTERCONNECT and Verilog-A photonic compact model libraries (CMLs) from a single data source of characterization measurements and 3D simulation results.
Process-enabled custom design flows that empower designers to quickly augment existing PDKs with custom passive and active components that adhere to foundry specifications.
Integration with Ansys Speos bridges the disconnect between nanophotonic simulation and macroscale simulation of the environment allowing designers to consider the effects of illumination, viewing angle, and human perception.
Demonstration workflows are available for display and image-sensor applications.
OptiSLang can drive Lumerical products in complex workflows, allowing designers to benefit from its design optimization and sensitivity analysis capabilities.
Demonstration workflows are available for display and modulator applications.
Efficiently create photonic compact model libraries (CMLs) for use in photonic process design kits (PDKs). Use CML Compiler for the creation, maintenance, and quality assurance (QA) testing of INTERCONNECT and Verilog-A photonic CMLs.
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