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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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Synopsys OptoCompiler for Photonic Integrated Circuits

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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Synopsys OptSim for Photonic System Design

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Synopsys OptSim provides comprehensive simulations of photonic ICs and optical communication systems

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RSoft Photonic Device Tools provide the industry's widest portfolio of simulators for passive and active nanoscale devices

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Designing PAM4 Transceiver PICs and Measuring TDECQ in the Synopsys OptoCompiler E-O Co-Design Platform

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Synopsys Announces 2023 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition Results

Synopsys Announces 2023 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition Results

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The Next Revolution in Optics – Metalenses

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Modeling Improvements for Photonic Integrated Circuits

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What’s New in RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.03: Expanded Metalens Design and Multi-Physics Simulations

The latest release expands the platform’s capabilities for automated metalens design as well as multi-physics simulations for optoelectronic devices and illumination systems.

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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 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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  • 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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