OmniSim

Layout Editor

A powerful and user-friendly design interface for photonics

OmniSim offers a very flexible layout editor which allows you to design virtually any device you want with a large flexibility associated with an precise numerical position control. 

The OmniSim Editor is optimised for integrated photonics; for the design of photonic crystals please see also the CrystalWave Editor (available as part of OmniSim).

Features:

• Optimal for the modelling of planar integrated optics: design a ring resonator or a tapered waveguide in just a few clicks!

• Device layer editor for quick definition of your epitaxial structure

• Supports etch and growth processes

• Advanced etch process:

  • tilted etch capabilities to generate non-vertical etch walls

  • tapered, rounded-bottom etching

  • anisotropic etching etc.

• Extensive shape library including user defined functions and 3D objects such as cuboids, ellipsoids, trapezoids and cylinders

• Free rotation of almost any object

• Powerful Constraint system to build more complex structures by joining elements together

• Hierarchical framework - create elements and reference them as sub-elements in another design

• Periodic elements (in 1 or 2 directions)

• Arbitrary number of mask layers

• Multi-level undo/redo

• Export to mask file with advanced mask generation features