11/29/21, 1:12 PM Software for Photonic Devices and Circuits
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General Device Physics
CAMFR (Gent Univ.) - vectorial Maxwell solver
Nanostructures
CST - tools for optical devices, plasmonics, and nanophotonics
Electronic Devices
EM Explorer - 3D-FDTD solver for planewave scattering problems
Optoelectronic Devices
EM Photonics Inc. - electromagnetics simulation in MATLAB
- Lasers
JCMsuite (JCMwave) - frequency domain finite element Maxwell solver
- LEDs
Luceda Photonics - integrated photonic circuit design
- Solar Cells
Lumerical Solutions Inc. - FDTD & optical mode solver
Photonic Devices MEEP (MIT) free FDTD software for Unix
Optical Systems MIT Photonic Bands (MIT) Photonic crystal band structure
RF Devices openEMS (U Duisburg) fully graded 3D Cartesian and cylindrical FDTD solver
MEMS
Optiwave Inc. - various tools for integrated and fiber optics
Growth & Processing PhoeniX Software - various photonic device simulation tools
Photon Design Inc. - various photonic design tools
PHOTOSS - photonic devices and comunication systems
QUANTOPTICON - quantum photonic device simulation
RODIS (Gent Univ.) - rigorous coupled-wave analysis
RP Photonics Consulting GmbH - laser and photonics design codes
SiIO (U Twente) various tools for integrated optics
Synopsys - former RSOFT tools
VPIphotonics - photonic circuits and fiber communication systems
VSim (Tech-X) - FDTD solver for large devices + consistent mode solver
WAVEGUIDE (Southern Methodist Univ.) - mode solver
WOLFSIM (NCSU) wideband FDTD for periodic structures in anisotropic media
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