Come and visit our modeling experts at the German Pavilion - Booth 4629-10!
VPIphotonics and PhoeniX Software integrate solutions to enable rapid layout-aware circuit design of ASPICs
VPIphotonics and PhoeniX Software in cooperation with LioniX International teamed up to develop a photonics Process Design Kit (PDK)
supporting the seamless integration of circuit simulation and layout design of application-specific photonic integrated circuits (ASPICs)
to be processed on LioniX Internationals TriPleX technology platform.
VPItoolkit PDK LioniX represents a new pluggable library extension to VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits providing circuit-level simulation support of the PDK building blocks for the integrated optical waveguide technology TriPleX by LioniX International.
Further information in our Press Release!
Design flow for elaborating modern and next generation Opto-Electronics & Photonic Integrated Circuits
VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits is a simulation and design environment for photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
It provides advanced device libraries integrated with a scalable time-and-frequency-domain
simulation framework for fast and accurate modeling of large-scale PICs with a mix of
photonic, electrical and optoelectronic devices.
Analysis and optimization of straight anisotropic and bent isotropic optical
waveguides and related devices
VPImodeDesigner supports the analysis and optimization
of integrated photonic waveguides and related devices. It implements fullvectorial
and semi-vectorial finite-difference mode solvers with support of widely
customizable non-uniform meshing and perfectly matched layer absorbing
boundaries. Full integration with VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits
allows translating waveguide cross-section definitions into model parameters of
passive and active devices.
Our modeling experts will provide a number of technical presentations on various design and analysis topics. Please find a short list below:
Additional information required on a particular subject? Interested in discussing specific topics?
Arrange a meeting with a member of the VPI R&D team. Please indicate your name, company, the issue you want to discuss and your availability during the conference.
Session 2, Advanced Hybrid PICs, Paper 10107-8 – Tue 31 Jan 2017, 3:30pm to 5:50pm
S. Mingaleev, A. Richter, E. Sokolov, S. Savitski, A. Polatynski, J. Farina, I. KoltchanovAbstract: We present our versatile simulation framework for the schematic-driven and layout-aware design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) realizing a fast and user-friendly design flow for large-scale PICs comprising passive and active building blocks (BBs). We show how the seamless interaction of circuit simulation with photonic layout design tools allows to specify and utilize directly physical locations and orientations of BBs of standardized process design kits. We demonstrate how to combine graphical schematic capture and automated waveguide routing, and discuss by means of typical design applications how an optimized design flow can speed-up the virtual prototyping of complex PICs and optoelectronic applications.
Session 7, Electromagnetics I, Paper 10098-30 – Tue 31 Jan 2017, 3:30pm to 5:10pm
I. Koltchanov, A. Richter, J. FarinaAbstract: We present a modeling-based design technique addressing DBR fiber laser sensors which overcomes critical simulation challenges. We compare approaches simulating the cavity characteristics in frequency or time. We show that for an adequate description of the laser spectrum, modal and noise characteristics the time domain approach in combination with a dynamic fiber model is desirable. Stationary operation can be achieved after several thousand iterations where the laser shows a single-mode spectrum with linewidth in agreement to the quantum limit. Based on our model we show how the laser characteristics depend on the grating frequencies and can be used for sensor applications.
