RSoft Photonic Device Tools, version 2024.09, introduces a suite of powerful new features and improvements designed to enhance the efficiency and capabilities of photonic device simulations. Key updates include GPU acceleration for FullWAVE FDTD, enhancements to BeamPROP BPM, MetaOptic Designer, and DiffractMOD RCWA, and changes to the Python interface. These advancements promise significant speed improvements, better stability, and increased usability for photonic device designers.
Synopsys RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2024.09 Tested Picture
The RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2024.09 release includes many new features to improve usability and speed for improved photonic device/grating simulation:
- Support for GPU-based FDTD simulation in FullWAVE FDTD
- Supports NVIDIA GPU hardware
- Significant speedup, exact speedup is hardware/problem dependent
- Non-orthogonal unit cells in DiffractMOD RCWA
- More efficient simulation of hexagonal lattice structures
- RSoft BSDF files produced with this new feature can be fully used by the RSoft BSDF UDOP in LightTools and MetaOptic Designer
- Support for far-field and MTF targets for MetaOptic Designer
- Enables design/simulation of metalens with specific far-field or MTF targets
