ABOUT PHOTON DESIGN
Photon Design was started in 1992 in Oxford UK to provide professional quality software to the photonics industry. Since that time it has introduced many innovations to photonics modelling, and now provides World-leading tools for the modelling of active and passive photonics components and circuits. Photon Design products are now 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. We are also able to provide custom solutions based on our standard products and our experts with decades of simulation experience are available for consulting.
Passive Component Design
FIMMWAVE
Waveguide Mode Solvers
An exhaustive suite of waveguide mode solvers including advanced finite-difference and finite-element solvers, fibre solvers and many more.
FIMMPROP
Fully Vectorial Bidirectional Optical Propagation
A rigorous fully vectorial and bi-directional optical propagation tool based on EigenMode Expansion (EME). With a scattering matrix approach with an advanced taper algorithm this is the ideal tool for silicon photonics design!
OMNISIM
FDTD and FETD Simulators for Nanophotonics and Plasmonics
A unique propagation tool combining our state-of-the-art FDTD Engine with our innovative FETD Engine, ideal for modelling plasmonics. OmniSim comes with a user-friendly layout editor and a 2D FEFD (Finite-Element Frequency-Domain) solver ideal for fast optimisation.
CRYSTALWAVE
Photonic Crystal Design Suite
The ultimate photonic crystal design suite featuring our FDTD and FEFD Engines, a band solver and the most flexible layout editor for 2D and 3D photonic crystal lattices.
EPIPPROP
AWG and Echelle Grating Model
For the modelling and optimisation of all your wavelength division multiplexing applications (WDM/DWDM), featuring the first commercial model and design environment for Echelle gratings and a high-performance AWG model.
KALLISTOS
Automatic Design Optimisation
An advanced, user-friendly and utterly flexible automatic optimisation add-on compatible with our entire passive component design suite.
Active Component Design
PICWAVE
Photonic Circuit and Laser Diode Simulator
A unique active and passive Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) simulator including an advanced laser-diode and SOA model and a flexible design flow environment.
HAROLD
Advanced Laser and QCSE Heterostructure Model
Model the physics of your epitaxial laser hetero-structure with Harold! Harold can even model lateral carrier diffusion e.g. in hybrid lasers! Also includes a Quantum-Confined Stark Effect (QCSE) model.
ACTIVE FDTD
with CrystalWave and OmniSim
Model photonic crystal and other micro-cavity lasers.
Photonic Circuit Design
PICWAVE
Photonic Circuit and Laser Diode Simulator
A unique active and passive Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) simulator including an advanced laser-diode and SOA model and a flexible design flow environment.
