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Design, simulate, and validate advanced photonic devices with expert guidance. From component-level optimization to full photonic circuit analysis, our consultants help you reduce risk and accelerate development.
Photonics System Design and Optimization
Powerful simulation software and design-for-manufacturing best practices enable businesses to speed up design cycles, improve product resilience to fabrication defects, analyze post-fabrication effects, and develop products suitable for mass production. Solutions include:
- Design-for-test Methodology – Overview PIC layouts to identify problematic designs that prevent effect testing/packaging.
- Packaging Feasibility – Provide insight and suggest methods for electro-optical co-packaging, optical I/O packaging, multi-chip PIC integration.
- Scripted Design Workflow – Developing Lumerical or custom Python scripts via the Lumerical API can streamline simulation setup, automate data collection, and enable integration with other tools and workflows.
- Simulation Assistance – Perform Convergence Tests to identify changes in the simulation setup that lead to reduced computational requirements and faster simulation times.
- Fabrication Analysis – Identifying fabrication variations and their impact on device performance. This includes parameter changes, yield rate estimates, and lithography effects.
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Create First-Time Right Devices
By integrating fabrication variation analysis, businesses gain accurate predictions of potential performance variations due to foundry production tolerances. Designers can leverage this capability into a feedback loop to create resilient devices suitable in mass-production applications.
SimuTech Group offers expertise in design methodologies. We assist customers with refining designs to mitigate unintended performance changes due to variation. Through methods such as corner analysis, Monte-Carlo yield analysis, and lithography prediction, our customer can develop realistic simulations of their photonic products.
Simulate sidewall roughness with Ansys Lumerical. Sidewall roughness can have minor to severe impacts depending on the photonic device, thus sidewall angles are fabrication tolerances that should be considered. Built as a toggle feature, including sidewall angles into device simulations is made simple with Lumerical.
This Y-branch splitter is a fundamental building block component for photonic integrated circuits. The device intakes the transmitted signal, and splits it 50/50 down two separate paths. The device could also operate in reverse to combine signals which allows for complex circuits and devices to be created.
Lowering the Barrier of Entry, Reducing Learning Curves
Rapid prototyping is key to a great photonics product and shortened go-to-market time. Fast simulations and accurate results are essential for designs to enter production.
SimuTech engineers understand the challenges of adopting new software. Creating workflows or maximizing simulation capabilities can be difficult and time consuming. We exist to arm our clients with the capabilities and support necessary to achieve their goals.
Client Testimonial
“Photonic systems will play a large role in next generation technologies such as LiDAR, quantum computing, and A.I. As devices become more complex, the difficulty in design and simulation also grows exponentially.
Dream Photonics aims to lower the barrier of entry for the industry. We work with foundries to provide reliable and experimentally proven PDKs and cater to our customer IP development needs through consultation. We are always eager to discover how we can help you realize your product.
Creating photonic workflow solutions is challenging and requires multidisciplinary expertise. It was a pleasure working with SimuTech Group and their experts from multiple fields. We are happy to share the results of our partnership, an automated GDS export tool and a workflow for sub-wavelength grating devices, as open-source libraries for everyone in the industry to benefit.”
– Mustafa Hammood, Senior Photonics Designer at Dream Photonics
