VPIphotonics Design Suite accelerates the design of new photonic systems and subsystems for short-range, access, metro and long-haul optical transmission systems. Further, it supports assessment of technology upgrade and component substitution strategies that are to be developed for existing fiber plants. Highlights supported by the new version 9.9:

• Explore and compare technologies for fiber-optics and integrated photonics
• Evaluate transmission system concepts, component and signal processing limitations
• Control lab equipment, virtualize component functions, and automate testing

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We demonstrate the greatly enhanced new version of VPImodeDesigner – the powerful software design tool for the analysis and optimization of integrated photonic waveguides and optical fibers.

The new version provides new finite-difference mode solvers, enabling efficient modeling of plasmonic waveguides and accurate treatment of electric field singularities near sharp corners of high-index-contrast and plasmonic waveguides. It offers improved automated calculation of dispersive waveguide and fiber properties for degenerate and highly dispersive modes near cut-off wavelengths, and new advanced field operations with enhanced usability.

This version of VPImodeDesigner can be seamlessly integrated with VPIComponentMaker Photonic Circuits v9.9, our powerful circuit-level simulator of integrated photonics.

VPIphotonics announces release of an updated VPItoolkit supporting the SMART Photonics Process Design Kit (PDK), which seamlessly integrates Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) simulation and automated mask layout extraction.

The free and open-source Nazca Design developed by BRIGHT Photonics framework is now fully supported for the generation of verified PICs layouts to be submitted and processed in terms of Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) runs on SMART Photonics' Indium Phosphide technology platform. Similar mask export capabilities with OptoDesigner developed by PhoeniX Software (part of Synopsys) have already been introduced earlier.

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SENDATE, the Celtic-Plus flagship project for secure networking of data centers in Europe, successfully completed an industry-first multi-vendor SDN field trial. It featured real-time planning of transparent high-speed services across a disaggregated, multi-domain optical network.

Conducted this month in the Telia Company R&D lab in Stockholm with live connectivity to production network fibers, the multi-vendor and multi-domain field trial highlighted the importance of open ecosystem collaboration. Such a multi-stakeholder collaboration is essential to progressing SDN interoperability, ultimately driving innovation and realizing the real-world value of technological advances.

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Have you ever wanted to automate your lab, get better/quicker at processing your data, make beautiful plots and figures and at the same time meet a bunch of cool scientists? Well, you are in luck!
This hackathon provides 8 demos for various common lab automation tasks, ranging from simple remote control of optical instrumentation, data processing and photonic design simulations, all the way to full lab automation. Students, professionals of all levels are welcome to learn and share their secret tips and tricks developed over the years.

Hybrid photonic integration enables the development of high-performance components that are complex and cost-effective at the same time. This symposium covers the complete process chain from materials via simulation and fabrication to the final assembly and showcases applications of hybrid PICs in communications and analytics.

VPIphotonics teams up with Coriant and academic partners in the framework of the Celtic-Plus project SENDATE-FICUS.

VPIphotonics' core technical contribution to the project will be in work package "Component and System Specifications and Requirements". The team will participate in formulating the project's use-cases, network requirements and performance indicators, defining the system and component specifications, as well as take an active role in the development of the TRx DSP algorithms that are central to the QAMeleon's technological objectives. VPI leads a task where system and component modeling and simulation takes place.

VPIphotonics teams up with regional enterprises and research institutes in frame of PolyPhotonics Berlin, an R&D project co-financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The PolyPhotonics Berlin consortium targets to establish a new versatile polymer based integration platform combined with Indium-Phosphide and thin-film filter technologies for numerous photonics applications in the global communications and sensing market.