"I recently used FDTD Solutions for a lecture on numerical optical design in my graduate optics course. The user-friendly interface allowed the students to very quickly climb the learning curve of the program and achieve meaningful results on a waveguide grating coupler within the 3h lecture time. FDTD Solutions is a powerful tool to simulate theory in real device architectures, and as a result is a highly-effective teaching tool. Lumerical's support for teaching provides students with advanced learning tools to assist in providing them with hands-on learning experience in the classroom."

– Professor Marko Lončar, Harvard University

"As part of the UBC EECE 584 Nanophotonics Fabrication course, Lumerical's FDTD Solutions has been indispensable for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students in designing Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) nanophotonic circuits. In this course, students model and design passive components such as waveguides, splitters, couplers, ring resonators, photonic crystal waveguides and cavities, as well as larger circuits such as WDM multiplexers. The designs are then fabricated via IMEC's foundry in Belgium, tested by the students, and finally the results are compared with the FDTD models. The students and instructors have found FDTD Solutions easy to learn while yielding accurate results. Also, the software was useful as a learning tool to aid the students in understanding the physics of nanophotonic devices."

– Professor Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia