Photonic Solutions Enewsletter

2022 Synopsys Photonic Symposium Presentations Available

On October 19, 2022, Synopsys hosted its annual Photonic Symposium covering new capabilities and trends emerging in the integrated photonics market. 

Synopsys Photonic Symposium presentations are available on demand until January 19, 2023. To register and access the recordings, visit our website.

Read our blog for a summary of the Photonic Symposium presentations.

New Releases Available

On December 13, 2022, we released version 2022.06-1 of Synopsys OptoCompiler, Synopsys OptSim Elite and Synopsys Photonic Device Compiler, as well as version 2022.09-1 of the RSoft Photonic Device Tools.

OptoCompiler version 2022.06-1 release highlights:

• Single segment flexConnectors now consistently give a warning when the subgrid offset of the connecting ports is misaligned
• Update Photonic Pin no longer breaks when a pin has multiple shapes
• Error related to Primewave job classes resolved
• Various stability fixes

OptSim Elite version 2022.06-1 release highlights:

• Support for equation-based optical S-matrix models
•  Support for equation-based and parametric-file-based voltage transfer equations in electro-absorption modulator (EAM) model
•  New blocks for separate photodetector responsivity, noise, and frequency response models
•  New 1x1 and 2x1 optical expression operator blocks
•  Support for mixed-domain EO-cosim-based PDK models
•  Multi-channel support in EO co-simulation
•  Support for current-out-of-range warnings for Laser Lookup model
•  Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

RSoft Photonic Device Tools

The RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2022.09-1 release delivers enhanced integration with Sentaurus TCAD to increase the usability and performance advantage of the Synopsys design flow for optoelectronic devices such as phase shifters, photodetectors, and CMOS image sensors. Enhancements include:

• Application-specific wizard to jumpstart new projects
• Support for the direct use of Workbench variables (@ expressions) in RSoft CAD project scripts
• Optical designs can be individually opened for each experiment to view the geometry and project settings, or to run optical simulations asynchronously from the Workbench flow
• New CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) example

In addition, MetaOptic Designer, Synopsys’ unique inverse-design tool for quickly and efficiently designing and simulating metalenes and metasurfaces, offers new capabilities:

• Can include lenses designed in Synopsys’ CODE V imaging design software
• Faster performance with more granular option/output controls
• Improved plotting, lens visualization, and material support

Photonic Device Compiler

• Updates to Alchemy to provide more control over callbacks and improved error checking of port and parameter names
• The Sentaurus TCAD improvements listed for the RSoft Photonic Device Tools are also available in Photonic Device Compiler

Industry Articles

• Modeling silicon photonics process parameter variations in Synopsys OptoCompiler-OptSim, PIC Magazine, pp. 20-23
• 3D-Printed Achromatic Metalens Brings Fiber Imaging Into Focus, Photonics Media
• Silicon photonic MEMS take a step forward, Newswise
• Chip-Based Beam-Steering Lights Way to Smaller, Cheaper Lidar, Photonics Media
• Enhancing AI Performance With In-Situ Photonic Accelerator, AZO Optics
• "Nonlocal" Metasurface Enables High-Performing AR Eyeglasses, Photonics Media

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