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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
OptoCompiler is the industry’s first unified electronic and photonics design platform for fast, flexible photonic IC design
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Photonic Systems
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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Blog
Photonic Symposium 2022 Recap
Here's a summary of the presentations from our annual Photonic Symposium from October 2022, which covered new capabilities and trends emerging in the integrated photonics market.
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News Release
OpenLight Unveils Brand Identity and Technology Portfolio to Usher in World's First Open Silicon Photonics Platform with Integrated Lasers
OpenLight's platform provides a new level of laser integration and scalability to accelerate the development of high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
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News Release
Synopsys Extends OptoCompiler Support for New GF Fotonix™ Platform
Synopsys OptoCompiler solution will enable designers to leverage the new GlobalFoundries silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix™. It is the first to combine its differentiated 300mm photonics and RF-CMOS features on a silicon wafer, delivering best-in-class performance at scale.
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Photonic Symposium
Photonic Symposium, in celebration of Day of Photonics (21 October), covered the latest in photonic IC technology advances and market trends, as well as photonic applications in LiDAR, quantum computing, and co-packaged optics.
Synopsys Photonic Symposium presentations are available on demand until January 19, 2023.
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 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