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Ansys Lumerical FDTD
Simulation of Photonic Components

Ansys Lumerical FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes, and materials. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing, and optimization routines.

ANSYS LUMERICAL FDTD

Lumerical FDTD: Reliable, Powerful and Scalable Solver Performance

This finely tuned implementation of the FDTD method delivers best-in-class solver performance over a broad spectrum of applications. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing and optimization routines, allowing you to focus on your design and leave the rest to us.

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    3D CAD Environment
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    Nonlinearity and Anisotropy
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    Accurate Material Modeling
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    Powerful Post-processing
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Quick Specs

A range of benefits allow for flexible and customizable models and simulations. Ansys Lumerical FDTD models nanophotonic devices, processes and materials so you can focus on creation.

  • 2D or 3D Models
  • Advanced Conformal Meshing
  • Flexible Material Plug-ins
  • Fully vectorial custom and high NA broadband beam sources
  • Custom Surfaces and Volumes
  • Cloud and HPC Capability
  • Far-field Projection Analysis
  • Q-factor Analysis
  • Automated S-parameter extraction
  • Spatially Varying Anisotropy
  • Band Structure Analysis
  • Scripting and Optimization Routines

Resources

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Ansys Lumerical’s Component Level Tools

This webinar starts with an overview of the broad set of component level solvers it offers with an emphasis on FDTD and MODE. It then shows how these solvers can be used to simulate and optimize novel designs in a wide range of applications including micro-LEDs, augmented reality, magneto-optics and lasers.

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Lumerical's Photonic Inverse Design reduces CompoundTek SiPh grating coupler footprint by 20x

Using Lumerical’s PID flow on AWS EC2, new SiPh grating couplers were developed with a footprint 20x smaller than CompoundTek’s existing coupler and with predicted improvements in performance.

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Ansys Lumerical’s Component Level Tools

This webinar starts with an overview of the broad set of component level solvers it offers with an emphasis on FDTD and MODE. It then shows how these solvers can be used to simulate and optimize novel designs in a wide range of applications including micro-LEDs, augmented reality, magneto-optics and lasers.

CAPABILITIES

Lumerical FDTD: Model Photonics Components Before You Build

Lumerical FDTD is the gold-standard for modeling nanophotonic devices, processes and materials. This finely tuned implementation of the FDTD method delivers reliable, powerful and scalable solver performance over a broad spectrum of applications. The integrated design environment provides scripting capability, advanced post-processing and optimization routines, allowing you to focus on your design and leave the rest to us.

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Key Features

  • Photonic Inverse Design with lumopt
  • Powerful Post-Processing Analysis
  • Nonlinearity and Anisotropy
  • Multi-coefficient Models
  • 3D CAD Environment

Automatically discover optimal designs and geometries for a targeted design goal. Discover non-intuitive geometries that optimize performance, minimize area, and improve manufacturability.

Powerful post-processing capability, including far-field projection, band structure analysis, bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) generation, Q-factor analysis, and charge generation rate.

Simulate devices fabricated with nonlinear materials or materials with spatially varying anisotropy. Choose from a wide range of nonlinear, negative index, and gain models. Define new material models with flexible material plug-ins.

Uses multi-coefficient models for accurate material modeling over large wavelengths ranges. Automatically generate models from sample data or define the functions yourself.

FDTD’s CAD environment and parameterizable simulation objects allow for rapid model iterations for 2D and 3D models.

Case Studies

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Rockley Photonics

Rockley conducted multiple 2D and 3D single time-domain simulations using Lumerical software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) thus allowing for the extraction of high-resolution spectra.

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Xanadu

Xanadu builds X8 quantum computing chip with unprecedented low-loss performance while significantly accelerating their design schedule.



Application Gallery

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Application

Photonic Inverse Design Grating Coupler (3D)

In this example, we use the Inverse Design Toolbox (lumopt) to optimize a 3D SOI grating coupler.

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Polarization-sensitive plasmonic reflectors for HUD – Speos Interoperability

or a HUD that needs to reflect polarized lights, here we demonstrate periodic plasmonic nanostructures that could provide significant reflection for certain polarization.

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Application

Micro-LED

In this example, we use the STACK optical solver and FDTD to characterize a cylindrical micro-LED and extract the emitted power and radiation pattern.


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FDTD Product Reference Manual

The FDTD reference manual provides detailed descriptions of product features.

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CompoundTek

Using Lumerical’s PID flow on AWS EC2, new SiPh grating couplers were developed with a footprint 20x smaller than CompoundTek’s existing coupler and with predicted improvements in performance.

Ansys software is accessible

It's vital to Ansys that all users, including those with disabilities, can access our products. As such, we endeavor to follow accessibility requirements based on the US Access Board (Section 508), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the current format of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT).

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