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Advanced Tools for Metalens Design, Simulation, and Fabrication
Metalenses represent a breakthrough in optical technology, offering unprecedented control over light with sub-wavelength structures. They are poised to revolutionize a wide range of applications from consumer electronics to advanced scientific instruments.
Synopsys provides industry-leading tools and solutions that enable engineers to design, simulate, and fabricate metalenses with precision and efficiency.
Key Benefits
Metalens Design Flow
Streamline Your Metalens Design Process
Designing metalenses can be time-intensive and integrating them into optical systems poses unique challenges. Streamline your metalens design with the following tools:
- MetaOptic Designer
- Automatically determines design parameters across each metasurface
- Exports GDS and optimization results
- Integrates with RSoft Photonic Device Tools and CODE V
- CODE V Meta Optic Design add-on
- Enables the design of meta optical surfaces
- Optimizes refractive lenses and metalenses
- Uses error functions and allows setting variables and constraints
- Exports designs to GDSII files for manufacturing
- Optical Scattering Measurement Hardware
- Compare the simulated results versus the actual measurements of the metasurface component far-field distribution
- Utilize spectral detection and polarization features for additonal characterization measurement options
Accurate and Efficient Simulation
Synopsys metalens design tools offer advanced simulation capabilities for efficient and accurate results, reducing computational load and time.
We predict fabrication outcomes and optimize designs for manufacturability, addressing material properties and process limitations. This ensures innovative and practical designs, overcoming challenges like mask manufacturing and etching.
Evaluate and Optimize Performance Metrics
With MetaOptic Designer, optimize performance metrics such as efficiency, bandwidth, and aberration correction. This tool provides clear insights for superior metalens designs, supports hybrid systems of conventional lenses and metalenses, and facilitates seamless integration and compatibility checking with other system components, ensuring that your metalens designs work seamlessly within larger optical systems.
FDTD and Measurement Validation
Validate your designs with the following tools:
- RSoft FullWAVE FDTD and MetaOptic Designer
- Ensures that your designs meet the highest standards
- Validate the performance of metalenses under real-world conditions
- Synopsys REFLET 180S hardware solution
- Validates meta grating design with far field measurement capabilities
- Demonstrated in this paper: Design and characterization of metasurfaces for LiDAR applications.
Reduce Costs and Manage Resources
The design of metalenses can demand extensive resources. Accessing Synopsys solutions via scalable cloud-based platforms helps lower costs and resource consumption, streamlining workflows and making advanced metalens design more attainable and cost-effective.
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