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Photonic Solutions

Empowering photonic innovations from concept to manufacturing

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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

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Design photonic products quickly and accurately with our comprehensive solutions portfolio

Photonic Integrated Circuits

The industry’s first unified electronic and photonic design platform to enable fast and flexible photonic IC design

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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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Photonic Device Tools

The industry's widest portfolio of simulators and optimizers for passive and active photonic and optoelectronic devices

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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.

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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.

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CEO of VLC Photonics

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Blog

Photonic Symposium

In September, industry experts gathered online at the Photonic Symposium to convey the current state of the integrated photonics market and its diverse end applications.

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News Release

Synopsys Achieves AIM Photonics Certification

AIM Photonics has certified Synopsys' IC Validator solution for physical verification signoff of photonics integrated circuits (ICs).

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White Paper

Co-Packaged Optics and the Evolution of Switch/Optical Interconnects in Data Centers

The data networking industry is moving toward the adoption of co-packaged optics (CPO). Read our paper to learn about the benefits and challenges of this technology.

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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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Product Applications

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Product Resources

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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

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