Photonics Simulation & Design Software (Ansys Lumerical)

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.

High Level Feature 

Ansys Lumerical, a complete photonics simulation software solution, enables the design of photonic 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.

Lumerical FDTD

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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)

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

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

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

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
• Export surface models, including bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) and diffraction gratings, to Ansys Speos for human perception analysis

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
• Simulate effects of self-heating on semiconductor laser performance
• Integrations with Virtuoso, Siemens EDA, and layout

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

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

Lumerical Photonic Verilog-A Platform

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enables multi-mode, multi-channel and bidirectional photonic circuit modeling when used in conjunction with the 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