FIMMWAVE

A powerful waveguide mode solver

Feature/Option Table


Feature Base Module Complex Engine FIMMPROP Cylindrical Solvers Thermal/EO Module Stress Solver FEM Solver
Mode Solvers
FMM Mode Solver
- real, rectangular geometry index profiles
         
FMM Mode Solver
- complex rectangular geometry index profiles
           
FDM Mode Solver
- real, arbitrary geometry index profiles, diagonal anisotropic dielectric tensor
           
FDM Mode Solver
- complex, arbitrary geometry index profiles, diagonal anisotropic dielectric tensor
           
FEM Mode Solver
- real, arbitrary geometry index profiles, general anisotropic dielectric tensor
           
FEM Mode Solver
- complex, arbitrary geometry index profiles, general anisotropic dielectric tensor
   ► (with FEM Solver)         ► (with Complex Engine)
Effective Index Solver
- real, rectangular geometry index profiles
           
Effective Index Solver
- complex, rectangular geometry index profiles
           
Scalar mode solver for step-index fibre          
Gaussian mode solver for fibre geometries          
General Fibre Solver
- arbitrary radial profile Ne(r), circularly symmetric, real index
           
FDM Fibre Solver
- arbitrary radial profile Ne(r), circularly symmetric, real index
            
FDM Fibre Solver
- arbitrary radial profile Ne(r), circularly symmetric, complex index
      ► (with Complex Engine)      
Optical Propagation Modelling
Far-field Calculator            
Efficient free-space propagation (waveguide-gap-waveguide geometry in FIMMPROP)            
Bi-directional optical propagation            
Reflections due to coatings            
Propagation due to arbitrary beam input            
Propagation with absorbing computational boundaries     ► (with Complex Engine)        
Propagation in the presence of strongly absorbing regions (e.g. metals)     ► (with Complex Engine)        
External effects: temperature, electro-optic effect, stress
Heat flow calculation using 2D Poisson Solver, effect of heating on modes.            
Electro-optic effect simulation with 2D anisotropic Poisson Solver, effect of E-field on modes e.g. for design of EO switches            
Effects of stress on modes and propagation            
Waveguide CAD tools
Rectangular Geometry Waveguides            
Cylindrical Geometry Waveguides            
Geometrical Shapes Waveguides (ellipses, rectangles and polygons)