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PICWave

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

PICWave

Introducing PICWave

The circuit simulator with the most physical effects on the market; see how PICWave can be used for sophisticated SOA and Laser diode design, time domain simulations of entire PICs, or building/ using processed design kits (PDKs).

Output spectrum of the DFB laser around the central wavelength showing attenuated side modes

Capturing the Physics of Lasers

See how PICWave finds applications outside of the basic circuit simulator as a full laser diode model for a variety of popular geometries such as DFBs Tuneable DBRs and Ring Lasers.

Capturing the Physics of Lasers
PIC Wave with Harold FIMMPROP EPIPPROP

The Center of Your Design Flow

Combine gain spectra from sophisticated laser models (Harold), rigorously simulated passive components (FIMMPROP) and entire AWGs (EPIPPROP). See how PICWave can act as the center of your Photon Design ecosystem as well as operating in its own right.

The Center of Your Design Flow
Using a design kit in PICWave: example shows 4x4 fast optical switch design.

Fab Ready PICs With Design Kits

Create complex PICs combining calibrated building blocks from popular InP foundries HHI and Smart Photonics. Find out how using Processed Design Kits (PDKs) can cut costs and speed up your development.

Fab Ready PICs With Design Kits

Feature Highlights

Discover the modelling capabilities, performance and efficiency of FIMMPROP.

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Active Module

For simulation of amplifiers, lasers, modulators and photo-detectors.

Balanced photo-detector circuit constructed in PICWave
An LCR drive network attached to an FP laser
Constellation diagram of DQPSK signal recovered by receiver, as shown in PICWave's oscilloscope

Analysis

PICWave provides a large variety of analysis utilities.

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4x4 SOA switch circuit: 16 SOAs are used to select which input channel signals will appear in the output channel signals; highlighted in red are the optical paths leading to out1.

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