Ansys Lumerical FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling photonic components, processes, and materials. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing, and optimization methods.
Ansys Lumerical FDTD is photonic simulation software that integrates FDTD, RCWA, and STACK solvers in a single design environment. This empowers precise analysis and optimization for various devices, including diffraction gratings, multilayered coatings, uLEDs, CMOS image sensors, metalenses, and metasurfaces, delivering best-in-class performance across diverse applications. Ansys Lumerical FDTD empowers rapid virtual prototyping and verification of thousands of iterations for the most complex designs.
Ansys Lumerical FDTD works seamlessly with Ansys Lumerical CML Compiler, Ansys Multiphysics solvers, Ansys Speos, Ansys Zemax, and third-party electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA) vendors to enable fast, accurate, scalable photonic design.
“Ansys Lumerical simulation software met our criteria for accuracy, compatibility, user-friendliness, and support and enabled us to design and optimize our photonic devices with confidence. The software made it easy to integrate fabrication process data for practical and realistic simulation results."
“With the help of Ansys Lumerical with their optimization, scripting, and cloud support, we were able to optimize each and every component of our X8 circuit for unprecedented low-loss performance, compactness, and high manufacturing tolerance.”
“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.”
“Lumerical FDTD solutions is an integral component of our research and development structure. The user-friendly layout allows for quick setup of short-term projects, while its scripting capabilities, documentation, and examples have enabled us to consistently and effectively advance our technology.”
“By using Lumerical FDTD solutions, we created highly accurate microcavity OLED models for fabrication from a set of custom scripts. Lumerical was instrumental in reducing both time and costs, and continues as the primary tool to execute our current, patented method for tuning optical structure of OLED.””
“We designed every nanometer of this metasurface using Ansys Lumerical FDTD + AWS + Python API while making it compatible with CMOS fabrication tolerances. Lumerical’s AWS solution allowed Lumotive to scale our design cycle by two to three orders of magnitude without additional cost or accuracy compromises.”
“The capability to run large scale physical simulations using the mature and approximation free FDTD method gives us a new level of confidence at tape-out. Lumerical’s FDTD based HPC approach proved to be the fastest and most cost effective.”
“Lumerical’s software has been invaluable to our research. Very useful features are being continuously added to maintain a market leading reputation.”
JULY 2024
The Ansys Lumerical 2024 R2 brings powerful updates and features across its photonics core technologies, ecosystem, cloud and HPC, workflows, and user experience.
Faster simulations with the finite-difference time-dDomain (FDTD) method utilizing multiple GPUs.
Enhanced FDTD simulations with GPU support for photonic lattice matrices (PLM), including Bloch and Periodic Boundary Conditions (BCs). GPU is as accurate as CPU
Accessibility of Lumerical on Microsoft Azure, offering scalable cloud resources for simulations. Configure a virtual desktop.
Tools and features for designing co-packaged optics, enabling integration of photonic and electronic components in a single package.
Enhancements to the design process for CMOS image sensors, optimizing performance through advanced algorithms.
Refined rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) solver for better accuracy and speed in simulating periodic structures.
CAPABILITIES
Lumerical FDTD is industry’s leading simulation software for design and optimization of a wide range of photonic components. Lumerical FDTD is remarkably versatile and scalable, offering unmatched speed and the ability to harness HPC (CPU and multi-GPU) and cloud resources.
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