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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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Synopsys Optical Solutions for Designing Display Systems for Augmented and Virtual Reality Systems
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Accelerate Your Photonic Simulations with the New RSoft Photonic Device Tool 2024.09 Release
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Transforming PIC Design: How Synopsys OptoCompiler SaaS Platform Empowers PIC Start-ups
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Simulating CMOS Image Sensors with Synopsys
CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) are very common opto-electronic devices that appear in numerous consumer devices. Modeling CIS devices requires process, optical and electronic simulations. Synopsys TCAD Sentaurus and RSoft Photonic Device Tools are well-suited for this application.
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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