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Photonic Solutions
Seamless Design Flow from Concept to Manufacture
RSoft Photonic Device Tools
The industry's widest portfolio of simulators and optimizers for passive and active photonic and optoelectronic devices
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Photonic System Tools
OptSim and ModeSYS tools simulate optical communication system links through comprehensive simulations and component models
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PIC Design Suite
OptSim Circuit and OptoDesigner offer a seamless photonic integrated circuit design flow from concept to manufacture
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Synopsys has been a great partner in enabling TowerJazz’s PH18 - the world’s first open foundry Silicon photonics process. Their expertise in both silicon photonics design automation and design has helped us put together a truly differentiated design environment that has been successfully used by several of our mutual customers."
Edward Preisler, PH.D.
|Director of Technology Development at TowerJazz
As a design house, we need a complete software framework that supports us in the developments for our customers. Synopsys has the proper tools for modeling and design, circuit simulation and layout that allow us to work in a fast, cohesive and efficient way. We're proud of working with them."
Iñigo Artundo, Ph.D.
|CEO of VLC Photonics
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SPIE Optics + Photonics Digital Forum
Who’d have thought you could attend a conference and stay home at the same time? Because of the current world health situation, many conferences are now online, including the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference. In just a few weeks, SPIE will host this annual event as a free digital forum.
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Synopsys Expands Modeling Capabilities for InP-Based PIC Design
A new, production-ready process design kit for Fraunhofer HHI’s Indium Phosphide integrated photonics process is now available for the PIC Design Suite.
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Photonic Solutions Support Advancements in Nanoscale Optics
The Synopsys Photonic Solutions portfolio enables innovations in consumer and industrial communication, sensing, and imaging applications – from concept to manufacturing.
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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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Synopsys Photonic Solutions New Features 2020.03
Learn about the latest features in the Photonic Solutions 2020.03 portfolio updates. Efficiently accelerate your designs with the latest features. Available to watch on-demand on our Customer Support Portal.
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Designing Mode MUX/DEMUX Structures
Learn about different types of mux/demux structures, their characteristics, modeling techniques, and parameter optimization approaches.
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Analysis and Optimization of Photonic Components
A Synopsys Photonic Solutions webinar providing tips for the analysis and optimization of photonic components. Get the M.O.S.T. out of your designs.
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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