Ansys Lumerical is a complete photonics simulation software solution that supports the design of photonics components, circuits, and systems. Device and system level tools work seamlessly together, enabling users to model the optical, electrical, and thermal effects of interactions. The flexible interoperability between products supports various workflows that combine device multi physics field and photon circuit simulation with third-party design automation and productivity tools. This software can be said to be a representative software in the field of photonics simulation, and it is also the most widely cited tool in scientific research journals.
Enhancements to Lumerical 2024R1 include:
- Improvements to the GPU acceleration for the Lumerical finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solver with faster meshing and multi-GPU extended memory capacity.
- A new scalable cluster solution based on SLURM scheduler to deploy Lumerical products, particularly FDTD, on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure clusters.
- New Klayout and Lumerical Multiphysics (CHARGE, HEAT, or FEM) direct bridge for component design.
- New features (e.g., layer intermixing, strain-induced polarization, nitride green and blue material support) for a complete 2D opto-electronic micro-LED simulation with the CHARGE and MQW solvers.
- A new frequency noise spectrum analyzer to figure out the noise spectrum of a laser source in Lumerical INTERCONNECT.
- New dark mode for the user interface of all Lumerical solvers.
