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Photonic Solutions
Empowering photonic innovations from concept to manufacturing
Design photonic products quickly and accurately with our comprehensive solutions portfolio
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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OptoCompiler
The industry’s first unified electronic and photonic design platform to enable fast and flexible photonic IC design
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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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Synopsys Introduces the Industry’s First Unified Electronic and Photonic Design Platform
Announcing the OptoCompiler™ solution for photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, layout implementation and verification.
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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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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