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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.


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Device-level Tools

Use multiphysics-style simulation capabilities and workflows to model optical, electrical and thermal effects at the physical level.

System-level Tools

System-level Tools

Simulate and optimize the performance of photonic integrated circuits and generate compact model libraries.

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Photonics Simulation

The 2023 R1 release of Ansys Lumerical introduces a series of powerful new capabilities to extend usability, accuracy, performance, and functionality across its family of products

  • Modernized CAD view in FDTD
  • Learn and use Ansys Lumerical RCWA easier with a new GUI
  • Access all optics examples from the new Ansys Optics Launcher
  • Experience the power of the cloud via the new Ansys Gateway powered by AWS
  • Accurately simulate your macroscopic optics design coupled to its nano-scale building blocks via new streamlined workflows between Ansys Lumerical, Zemax, and Speos
  • Predict the behavior of active devices via the new self-consistent Ansys Lumerical MQW and Ansys Lumerical CHARGE simulations
  • Verify PIC designs via layout-driven workflows in KLayout using the new streamlined layout import feature for component-level design
  • Speed up your electro-optical co-simulation of photonic circuits by 5X
  • New INTERCONNECT solver models quantum behavior in photonic integrated circuits

For details, please see our release notes.

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Webinars

Ansys 2023 R1: What’s New in Ansys Lumerical

Ansys 2023 R1:Ansys Lumerical What’s New

Ansys Lumerical continues to expand simulation capabilities, usability, accuracy, and performance across its family of products! Register now to learn about the latest features in 2023 R1.

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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

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.

Webinars

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Optimize Your Display with Ansys optiSLang, Lumerical and Speos

In this webinar, we approach the complex task of optimizing the pixel design in displays with the help of Ansys optiSLang to orchestrate the entire simulation workflow and perform advanced multi-objective optimization. 

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Focus on Lasers: simulating self-heating effects

In this webinar, we will present a new extension to our travelling wave laser model (TWLM) in Lumerical INTERCONNECT that enables laser simulation with self-heating.


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