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The industry's only seamless design flow for photonic devices, systems, and integrated circuits
We accelerate innovations in:
Optical Communications ∙ Sensing and Imaging Applications Using Photonic and PIC Technologies ∙ AR/VR ∙ Silicon Photonics
Design photonic products quickly and accurately with our comprehensive solutions portfolio
Photonic Integrated Circuits
Synopsys OptoCompiler is the industry’s first unified electronic and photonics design platform for fast, flexible photonic IC design
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Photonic Systems
Synopsys OptSim provides comprehensive simulations of photonic ICs and optical communication systems
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Photonic Devices
RSoft Photonic Device Tools provide the industry's widest portfolio of simulators for passive and active nanoscale devices
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Designing PAM4 Transceiver PICs and Measuring TDECQ in the Synopsys OptoCompiler E-O Co-Design Platform
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Synopsys Announces 2023 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition Results
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Latest Release Features
Our latest releases create an even more seamless flow from photonic device development and PDK creation to PIC circuit design, layout implementation, and verification.
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Markets, Applications, and Technologies
- Communication Systems
- 5G
- Radio-over-fiber networks
- Microwave photonics
- AR/VR
- Quantum computing
- Photonic components: passive and active
- LiDAR
- Chemical sensing
- Metalenses and metasurfaces
- Spectroscopy
- Silicon photonics, InP, SiN, PLC, polymers and more
- Transceivers for coherent and non-coherent fiber optic communication systems
- Photonic systems with multipath interference (MPI), reflections and resonances
- Ring resonators, ring modulators, Traveling-Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulators (TW-MZM), optical filters
- Biophotonic sensors