Come and visit our modeling experts at Booth 4423!
VPIphotonics Design Suite™ v9.9
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 9.9:
For more details about the enhancements in the new version 9.9 please click here!
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.
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 v9.9, our powerful circuit-level simulator of integrated photonics.
Updated VPItoolkit™ PDK SMART v1.4 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.
The free and open-source Nazca Design framework developed by BRIGHT Photonics 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.
Lab Automation Hackathon
Sunday 3 February 2019, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Room 11 (South Exhibit Level)
Come and attend our live demonstrations at Lab Automation and Photonic Design Hackathon during SPIE Photonics West 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.
For more information and registration click here!
This hackathon provides 5-8 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.
Bring a laptop to participate in the exercise. There will be plenty of time for mingling and discussion. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
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.
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, A. Richter (VPIphotonics)
Session 6: Optical Components for Datacenter Networks (Paper 10946-19) – Wed 6 Feb 2019, 9:10am - 9:40am
Abstract: A significant amount of R&D effort has been expended recently in finding Shannon capacity-approaching modulation schemes for optical communications. Probabilistic shaping (PS) of QAM constellations has emerged as a particularly attractive solution, allowing fine-grain adjustment of bit-loading, which can be traded off for transmission reach; this approach is ideal for realizing flexible, bandwidth-variable transceivers. PS-QAM, as well as other techniques such as digital subcarrier multiplexing (DSCM), pose significant challenges for the design of transceivers. In particular, the resolution of the digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs/ADCs) becomes critical, if the full benefits of advanced formats are to be obtained.
We present results of our investigation on applying intentionally nonuniform quantization in optical transceivers, as a means of relaxing DAC resolution requirements. By matching the quantizer's transfer function to the distribution of the signal amplitudes, quantization noise can be minimized. This novel approach can lower component cost and power consumption, potentially bringing advanced modulation formats to short-haul/metro links. Moreover, transceivers in the less cost-sensitive long-haul market segment can also profit from increased performance, due to higher signal-to-quantization noise ratio (SQNR). We show how to derive the nonuniform levels for any given modulation format, and quantify by means of extensive simulations the performance gain of the overall coherent system.
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.