About Lumerical Solutions, Inc.

By empowering research and product development professionals with high performance optical design software that leverages recent advances in computing technology, Lumerical helps optical designers tackle challenging design goals and meet strict deadlines. Lumerical's design software solutions are employed in more than 30 countries by global technology leaders like Agilent, ASML, Bosch, Canon, Harris, Northrop Grumman, Olympus, Philips, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics, and prominent research institutions including Caltech, Harvard, Max Planck Institute, MIT, NIST and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Our Name

Lu.min.ous (loo'me-nes) adj., full of light, illuminated

Nu.mer.i.cal (noo-mer'i-kel) adj., of or relating to a number or series of numbers

Lu.mer.i.cal (loo-mer'i-kel) - A company that delivers inventive, highly accurate and cost effective design solutions resulting in significant improvements in product development costs and speed-to-market.

The Future of Photonics

Lumerical envisions a future where nanoscale photonic and optoelectronic devices are pervasive. Made possible by the continued emergence of low-cost manufacturing techniques able to reliably create high-performance nanoscale devices in large volumes, photonics will be recognized as an enabling technology that intimately impacts many facets of life - through entertainment, medical discovery, communications, information storage, and manufacturing.

Realizing such nanoscale photonic devices comes with challenges.  Foremost, not many design tools are capable of accurately predicting nanoscale device performance as traditional approaches are inaccurate at these extremely small sizes.  Thankfully, the availability of powerful computing technologies has rendered highly-accurate device simulation that addresses nanoscale feature sizes feasible.  Indeed, virtual prototyping – assessing and optimizing device performance via rigorous computer-aided design and engineering - now allows organizations to rapidly and cost-effectively investigate new product concepts, optimize designs, and drive innovation.

What Lumerical Does

Since its inception in 2003, Lumerical has pioneered breakthrough simulation technologies that help bring new optical product concepts to life. From the first 3D computer-aided design environment aimed at microscale and nanoscale photonics, to the most robust parallel computation tool for nanoscale photonics available today, Lumerical empowers their academic, government research lab and FORTUNE Global 500 customers with best-in-class solutions to innovate across the semiconductor manufacturing, digital imaging, solid state lighting, solar energy, data communications, information storage and healthcare, medicine and biotechnology industries.

Lumerical's relentless efforts to develop extremely usable simulation technologies allows their diverse customers to quickly explore new product concepts. And Lumerical's focus on highly-accurate simulation techniques allows their customers to produce product prototypes that work as expected - the first time they are manufactured.

How Lumerical is Different

By listening closely to their customers and donating design tools for classroom instruction, Lumerical remains at the forefront in addressing the current and emerging needs of the photonic design community. Lumerical’s customer-centric approach to development has enabled Lumerical to create high-impact photonic simulation tools that facilitate the realization of next-generation optical, photonic, opto-electronic and electromagnetic technologies.  Testimony to that impact, our simulation and design products are among the most widely cited in the scientific press.

Most importantly, Lumerical serves as a reliable, long-standing research and development partner that complements their customers' on-going product development efforts. A passion for helping their customers meet deadlines and realize their goals makes Lumerical's technical support the best in the industry, and has rendered Lumerical the partner of choice when a new design challenge must be overcome.