About us
Photon Design was started in 1992 in Oxford UK to provide professional quality software to the photonics industry.
Our Products
World-leading tools for the modelling of active and passive photonics components and circuits.
Bi-directional optical propagation tool

The Laser Diode, SOA, and Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Simulator

A powerful waveguide mode solver

The Hetero-structure Laser Diode Model

Omni-directional photonic simulations

The WDM/DWDM model for AWGs and Echelle Gratings
A design optimization tool for photonic devices

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Photon Design will take its unique PCSEL simulation solution to the International Workshop on PCSELs.

Decades of features for crysal design, laser simulation, and optimisation algorithms come together for simulation of PCSELs and PCLs, now see how new Dynamic Gain Model for FDTD gives Photon Design the most exciting offering for the PCL designer.
Hosting at JePPIX - Picking the right simulation methods, PDKs, Hybrid Lasers and more...

Alex from the Photon Design teams hosts at JePPIX this week with exciting new examples that use the forefront of Photon Design software training a new wave of industry ready physicists.
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In use in 30+ countries, 100s of research labs and contributed to 1000s of leading research publications, helping to develop the next generation of datacom components and innovations in micro and nano-optics.
