Come and visit our modeling experts at Booth 3639!
New Version: VPItoolkit™ DSP Library v3.5
Tx- and Rx-side Digital Signal Processing algorithms for coherent optical transmission systems
VPIphotonics announces the release of new version 3.5 of the VPItoolkit DSP Library, a powerful set of digital signal processing algorithms developed by the Photonic Networks and Systems department at Fraunhofer HHI.
New features include:
The DSP Library is a pluggable toolkit for VPItransmissionMaker Optical Systems and VPIlabExpert, allowing the application of advanced DSP techniques for coherent optical systems in both simulation, as well as experimental laboratory setups.
VPIphotonics Design Suite™ v10.0
Design Photonic Components and Compare Transmission Technologies
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 10.0:
New Version: VPImodeDesigner™ v1.5
Comprehensive Design of Waveguides and Fibers
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, our powerful circuit-level simulator of integrated photonics.
Updated VPItoolkit™ PDK SMART v1.5 with export to multiple layout tools
Flexible and fast schematic-driven design of photonic integrated circuits
VPIphotonics announces release of an updated VPItoolkit PDK SMART supporting the SMART Photonics Process Design Kit (PDK), which seamlessly integrates Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) simulation and automated mask layout extraction.
Luceda's IPKISS design platform and the free, open-source Nazca Design framework developed by BRIGHT Photonics are 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.
Interfacing between Tanner L-Edit and VPIphotonics Design Suite™
VPIphotonics partners with Mentor to deliver effective solution for the layout-driven design of the photonic integrated circuits.
Mentor's tool Tanner L-Edit Photonics provides designers with a full-featured layout editor supporting manual layout of integrated photonic designs.
The link to VPIphotonics Design Suite enables an automated conversion of a layout created in Tanner L-Edit into
the schematic in VPIphotonics Design for subsequent benchmarking in photonics test beds and/or system applications levering the advanced simulation capabilities of
VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits and
VPItransmissionMaker Optical Systems.
Lab Automation Hackathon
Sunday, 03 March, 20:00 - 22:00, Room 17B
Come and attend our live demonstrations at Lab Automation Hackathon during OFC 2019. Our experts will demonstrate Python-powered advanced functionalities in VPIphotonics Design Suite including simulation controlling scripts, automatic optimization and sensitivity analysis, custom components modeling and caching of simulation data.
Bring a laptop to participate in the exercise. There will also be plenty of time for mingling and discussion. Light food and drink will be served.
For more information and registration click here!
Lab work is most efficient when data can be acquired in an automated way. Especially when taking measurements over long durations automated acquisition avoids introducing human error and allows researchers to concentrate on the fun part of experimental work. Open source software in easy to learn languages such as Python provides just as much, or more features/interoperability for lab automation than alternative commercial software. In this hackathon several researchers with 10+ years experience of lab automation will show you the power of using Python to quickly get a lab experiment running and display the measurements in a browser. We will learn from companies that work in photonics how they take advantage of Python to create easy interfaces to their software and hardware.
Networking: VPIphotonics at 6th workshop on Photonic Integrated Circuits
Wednesday, 06 March, 17:15 - 20:30, Room 29ABCD
The PIC Workshop will be held on Wednesday March 6, 2019 from 5:15pm to 8:30pm, i.e. right after the conference and exhibition end for that day. The workshop takes place as part of the OFC conference and is held in Room 29ABCD of the San Diego Convention Center.
The workshop is free of charge, but does require advance
registration! Food and drinks will be provided
and there is plenty of opportunity to network and interact with PIC service providers.
With an increasing momentum in photonic integration and last year’s OFC PIC Workshop attracting well over 350 attendees, this year will feature the 6th workshop on Photonic Integrated Circuits at OFC. The workshop is unique in the sense that it offers a material-independent one-stop-shop for anyone interested in or wanting to get started in photonic integration.
Our modeling experts will provide a number of technical presentations on various design and analysis topics.
Please find a short list below:
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S.Dris, S. Alreesh, A. Richter (VPIphotonics)
Paper W1D.2 – Room 6C – 8:30 am, Wednesday, March 6th
Abstract: A novel, two-stage algorithm for polarization
demultiplexing and equalization of probabilistically shaped QAM is presented.
It operates blindly, requiring no knowledge of the channel or transmitted sequence.
Performance is validated under realistic PMD conditions.
A. Richter, S.Dris, N. Andre (VPIphotonics)
Invited Paper Th1D.1 – Room 6C – 08:00 am, Thursday, March 7th
Abstract: We present theoretical background and implementation
considerations of Volterra series based nonlinear component models.
We demonstrate the advantage of combining frequency and time domain representations
and present an efficient way to find high-order filter taps.
Learn more about VPI's Consulting and R&D activities! Contact us for custom design services, and training seminars on modern technologies and their adequate modeling.
VPIphotonics partners with public research institutes, industry and universities to develop advanced solutions for the design and optimization of future photonic networks. These activities range from component design to network planning.