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Benefits
Overview
Features
Supported systems
Benefits
- Reduced development costs and speed time-to-market with
highly-accurate, virtual prototyping
- Deliver robust designs by quantifying the effect of manufacturing
tolerances on design performance
- Innovate new design concepts with flexible, easy-to-use MODE
Solutions design software
Overview
- Fully-vectorial computational engine
- Full 64bit Windows support: allows higher memory (RAM) capacity
and improved computational performance over 32bit
- Graded/non-uniform mesh capabilities
- Freeform design of truly-arbitrary waveguide geometries
- Scripting language to customize simulation and analysis
- Near- and far-field mode profiles
- Dispersion, group velocity, and group index frequency sweeps
- Lorentz, Drude, Debye and Sellmeier materials
- Data import/export with BRO's ASAP ray-tracing package
- Advanced Matlab capabilities: export data to Matlab, and run Matlab commands
within MODE Solutions
- Online help and knowledge base
Features
- Computational engine:
- fully vectorial;
non-uniform/graded mesh;
handles truly arbitrary geometries;
efficient eigenvalue search algorithm;
tracks specific modes during frequency sweeps;
macrobending loss;
coupling efficiency calculator
- Waveguide definition:
- supports basic, customized, parametrized and imported (from
SEM or other image, or GDSII) primitives
- Comprehensive material management:
- suports dielectric, lossy, conductive Lorentz, Drude, Debye,
Sellmeier and anisotropic materials; supports spatially-varying
material distributions;
- Boundary conditions:
- speed calculation and improve accuracy through choice of absorbing
(PML), periodic, symmetric, asymmetric, and metal boundary conditions
- Modal analysis:
- complex propagation constants and polarization state for guided and leaky modes
visualization tools for modal field profiles, Poynting vector data
for power flow;
customized integration of field data;
near to far-field projections
- Frequency-domain analysis:
- analyze dispersion, group velocity, group index, propagation loss,
effective refractive index as a function of frequency/wavelength;
- Data import/export:
- import/export to Breault's ray-tracing package ASAP; export to
MATLAB or text-files for post-processing
Supported systems
MODE Solutions supports the following systems:
- Windows 2000, XP (32 and 64 bit editions), and Vista (32 and 64 bit editions)
- RedHat Enterprise 3 & 4: x86_64 and i386
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 & 10: x86_64 and i386
- Fedora Core 4: x86_64 and i386
- RedHat 7.2 and up
- Contact Lumerical regarding other supported technologies
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