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Ansys Lumerical
Photonics Simulation & Design Software

Design and optimize your optical systems with our cutting-edge photonics simulation software. Our software empowers engineers to simulate and analyze photonics devices with unparalleled accuracy.

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Lumerical’s tools enable design of photonic components, circuits and systems. For component level design, Lumerical’s tools use multiphysics-style simulation workflows to model optical, electrical, and thermal effects at the physical level. For system level simulations, our products offer a rich set of capabilities to generate model libraries and & optimize the performance of photonic integrated circuits.

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“With its fast simulation performance and a high level of consistency with experimental data, Lumerical’s DEVICE Suite enabled LIGENTEC to optimize the performance of its new advance heater module reducing time to market and development budget needed,”

—Managing Director at Ligentec

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“The integrated electronic-photonic workflow provided by Ansys to co-designandco-simulate Silicon Photonics and CMOS chips is an indispensable tool to speed up our design process and results in better chips with fewer errors anda shorter time to market”

—Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs

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“Ansys Lumerical FDTD solutions paired with its cloud Accelerators allowed us to reduce insertion loss by more than 15% while significantly accelerating our design schedule”

—Quantum Photonics Engineer at Xanadu

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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

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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. 

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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.