Simphony: An open-source photonic integrated circuit simulation\n framework

2020/07/23 by Sequoia Ploeg, Ploeg, Sequoia, Hyrum Gunther +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · Computer Science · #Photonic and Optical Devices #Optical Network Technologies #Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.05146

Abstract

We present Simphony, a free and open-source software toolbox for abstracting\nand simulating photonic integrated circuits, implemented in Python. The toolbox\nis both fast and easily extensible; plugins can be written to provide\ncompatibility with existing layout tools, and device libraries can be easily\ncreated without a deep knowledge of programming. We include several examples of\nphotonic circuit simulations with novel features and demonstrate a speedup of\nmore than 20x over a leading commercially available software tool.\n

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