Photonics
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. Lumerical's DEVICE Suite of component-level simulation products use multiphysics-style simulation workflows to model optical, electrical and thermal effects at the physical level.
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.
ANSYS ANSYS Photonics Products
ANSYS Lumerical FDTD
FDTD is a simulator within Lumerical's DEVICE Multiphysics Simulation Suite, the world's first multiphysics suite purpose-built for photonics designers.
- 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 post-processing and optimization routines
ANSYS Lumerical MODE
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)
ANSYS Lumerical CHARGE
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
- Automated finite element mesh generation
ANSYS Lumerical HEAT
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
ANSYS Lumerical DGTD
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
ANSYS Lumerical FEEM
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
ANSYS Lumerical MQW
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
ANSYS Lumerical STACK
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
ANSYS Lumerical INTERCONNECT
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
ANSYS Lumerical CML Compiler
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
ANSYS Lumerical Photonic Verilog-A Platform
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
