Features
Headline
- A unified environment for component and circuit design, simulation and layout.
- EigenMode Expansion Simulations: Rigorous and fully vectorial solutions to Maxwell’s equations in 3D (or 2D).
- Intuitive user interface: Click and drag to draw waveguide paths, grab and snap devices together.
- Simulate what you fabricate: Waveguides can include tilted sidewalls and corner rounding.
- Exploit symmetry and repetition by recycling simulations: Sub-Devices duplicate geometry and simulation results for efficient design and computations.
- Plot field results on geometry to easily identify errors.
Benefits from FIMMPROP
- Advanced adaptive taper algorithms for the modelling of tapered waveguides and arbitrary z-varying structures.
- Wide and narrow angle.
- Bidirectional algorithm models all internal reflections.
Based on FIMMWAVE’s Mode Solvers
- A toolbox of different mode solvers for different waveguide cross-section including high index contrast SOI.
- Find efficiency gains for symmetric devices/ cross sections with symmetry options.
Parameter Scans, Script Automation, and Optimisation
- Scattering matrix approach offers fast design optimisation: FIMMPROP only recalculates what is needed when modifying the design.
- Scanner interface for single-parameter scans.
- Multi-parameter optimisation with Kallistos (optional module) - see example here.
- Extensive command-line interface, support for scripting with Python and MATLAB.
- Shipping with script to convert FIMMPROP devices to MT-FIMMPROP made by Photon Design.
Performance and Efficiency
- Extensive support of multi-core and multi-CPU computers to speed up your simulations
- Fast design and simulation of MMI's, periodic structures, tapers and bends
- More efficient than FDTD or FEM in many cases
- Native 64-bit application (32-bit version also available)