Photonic Integrated Circuit Simulation Best Practices

Learn how to simulate and optimize your photonic integrated circuits with Lumerical’s TCAD products. This video will focus on circuit models with Lumerical’s INTERCONNECT that incorporate physically realistic results from Lumerical’s MODE Solutions, FDTD Solutions and DEVICE. We will demonstrate how an idealized circuit behaves and then assess how the performance is modified when the effects of non-ideal components are included. There will also be an opportunity to answer your specific questions about simulation issues.

PRESENTER: Dr. Jackson Klein, Senior Product Manager, Lumercial Solutions

OUTLINE:

• Lumerical and INTERCONNECT
• We will consider a integrated optical transmitter as an example photonic integrated circuit that includes:
• Sources
  • I/O couplers
  • Waveguides and bends
  • Mach-Zehnder modulators
  • WDM components
• Simulation workflow and methodology
  • Setting up an ideal photonic integrated circuit
  • Importing results from realist device models simulated with Lumerical’s MODE Solutions, FDTD Solutions and DEVICE