PICWave  a photonic IC circuit simulator

   
         
   
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PICWave is a photonic integrated circuit (pic) simulator capable of modelling both passive and active components efficiently using a time domain method. The simulator is ideal for studying the interaction of optical components in a larger circuit and can model devices that are even metres in length. It can for example model a 2mm diameter ring resonator in a very short time to resolutions of a few MHz in optical frequency.

Features:

  • Efficient optical circuit simulator

  • Travelling wave time-domain (TWTD) optical model

  • Optical spectra

  • Wide variety of instruments

  • Integrated mode-solver

  • Arbitrary time domain input signals

  • Eye diagrams 

  • S-matix import from FIMMPROP or other component simulator

   Active Model:

  • PI and PV curves

  • Quantum efficiency

  • Quantum noise

  • Chirp simulation

  • Travelling wave electrode model

  • RIN spectra

  • Material database system

  • Integrated grating solver - real and gain gratings.

  • Longitudinal hole burning

  • Lateral hole burning

  • Carrier diffusion

  • MQWs

  • Non-linear gain

  • Auger processes

  • Thermal effects

  • Import gain tables

  • Electro-absorb modulator model

  • Gain model import from Harold or other heterostructure model

  Applications:

  • photonic intergrated circuits (PICs)

  • tuneable laser diodes

  • large ring resonators

  • Mach-Zehnder modulators

  • traveling wave SOAs

  • electro-absorbtion modulators

PicWave brochure (PDF)

   
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    Examples:

An Active 2R Optical Regenerator
Ring Resonator Filter


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