Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: "Lumerical Provides Open Access to Simulation Engine in FDTD Solutions 8.0 Release"

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-07-07

Summary:

“Lumerical Solutions, Inc. (www.lumerical.com), a global provider of optoelectronic design software, announced today the release of FDTD Solutions 8.0, the leading nanophotonic design environment based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. Release 8.0 extends the material modeling capabilities of prior versions to include the ability to model liquid crystals and other spatially-varying anisotropic materials, and a Flexible Material Plugin (FMP) framework that enables researchers to model a wide variety of other materials, including nonlinear, magneto-optical, and saturable gain materials. The new FMP framework enables researchers to describe via computer source code a material's polarization and magnetization as a function of the electromagnetic field and other physical quantities. Release 8.0 is expected to contribute to the development of components in the fields of optical switching, integrated magneto-optical polarization control, quantum communications and silicon photonics owing to the wide array of nonlinear effects available in silicon... ‘We've been in discussions with the nonlinear photonics community for years, working to understand their diverse interests and to develop a design environment that can accommodate their needs,"according to Dr. James Pond, Lumerical's CTO. "With the release of FDTD Solutions 8.0, researchers can quickly write a few lines of code to incorporate a Kerr medium into their simulation, or painstakingly develop hundreds of lines of code to model a multi-level atomic system. Either way, when it comes to simulation, with FDTD Solutions 8.0 researchers can focus on developing sophisticated material models while relying on Lumerical for everything else...’ To facilitate the development and sharing of these FMPs, they are written in native C/C++/FORTRAN computer source code and compiled into dynamically linked library plugins for FDTD Solutions. This allows for the open joint development of source code by collaborators, or the restricted sharing of binary material models coded by third-party developers. Validated FMPs developed by external parties that are shared with Lumerical will be included in standard, cross-platform build packages available to the photonics community...”

Link:

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=45526

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Tags:

oa.new oa.floss oa.modeling oa.nano oa.lumerical_solutions oa.fdtd oa.fmp oa.announcements

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/07/2012, 17:43

Date published:

07/09/2012, 14:07