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Applications:
| Biophotonics |
Display Technologies |
- Surface plasmon
- Nanoparticle scattering
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- LED light extraction optimization
- Nanowire grid polarizer
- Digital micro-mirror devices
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| Optical sensing, detection and collection |
Optical storage |
- CMOS image sensor pixels
- Thin film silicon solar cell photovoltaics
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| Semiconductor manufacturing |
Optical communication |
- DUV lithography simulation
- Surface plasmon resonance interference nanolithography
- Metrology
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- Ring resonators
- Optical waveguides
- photonic crystal microcavities
- photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL)
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Description
FDTD Solutions is a high performance commercial software implementation of the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. Incorporating an optimized simulation engine and parallel computing capabilities, it leverages the latest advances in computing technologies. The intuitive, 3D CAD graphical user interface is easy to use and learn, allowing designers to solve problems quickly by harnessing the integrated data and visualization tools provided.
FDTD Solutions is a flexible tool. The built-in scripting language, the parameter sweep and optimization tools provide advanced analysis capabilities necessary for investigating the most challenging and innovative design concepts. Coupled with Lumerical's expert technical support and extensive online help facility, FDTD Solutions is the design solution of choice for leading technology companies focused on bringing next-generation designs to reality.
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Specifications
| Optimize calculation engine |
Intuitive 3D layout editor |
- Contains proprietary algorithms that optimize use of computer memory and processor architecture.
- Uses a graded mesh with auto-mesh technology to create the most advantageous mesh depending on the structure of interest and the desired accuracy.
- Uses the conformal meshing propriatary technology to obtain a sub-cell accuracy.
- Experimentally verified: "The simulation gives us the answers we need, and the results perfectly match what we measure in the laboratory." - B. Cunningham, CTO, SRU Biosystems
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- Use the 3D CAD interface to draw or import (via GDS, SEM, of AFM data) micro- and nano-photonic structures easily.
- 3D visualization shows top, side, end, and perspective views.
- The tabbed interface provides an intuitive workflow for creating and running simulations and analyzing the resulting data.
- Provides integrated graphical optimization and parameter sweep tools.
- Design parameterization and hierarchical layout.
- Distribute jobs, collate results, and monitor progress via the Job Manager.
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| Integrated Data Visualization and Analysis |
- The analysis window allows for quickly plotting and visualizing EM simulation data such as near field and far field intensity profiles, vector field components, and power flow.
- Movie Monitors allow viewing of light propagation in and scattering from the optical structures of interest.
- Simple and straightforward syntax is used in a high level programming language similar to MATLAB and C that includes "EM Toolbox" functions that provide the framework for in-depth analysis of any situation.
- The scripting language is comprehensive, providing users with the ability to write scripts to control all aspects of setting up, running and analyzing simulations.
- FDTD Solutions contains a host of built-in functions that give users direct access to quantities of interest without having to worry about the details of the FDTD technique.
- Quantities such as the source power spectrum, integrated power flux across any surface, and near-to-far field transformations are easily computed.
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| Accurate and Flexible Material Modeling Capabilities |
Supported systems |
- Accurately describe optical structures that consist of any combination of dielectrics, semiconductors, and/or metals in arbitrary geometries; dispersive and anisotropic properties are also treated.
- The built-in materials database includes several pre-defined materials as examples and to get started quickly.
- Propriatary multi-coefficient material model, that describes materials in broadband simulations more accurately than classical models (Drude, Lorentz, Debye).
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- Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64 bit versions)
- Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux: x86_64 (version 5) and i386 (versions 4 & 5)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 10: x86_64 and i386
- HPC network technologies including: Infiniband, Myrinet, Gb and 10Gb Ethernet
- MPI frameworks including: MPICH, OpenMPI, IntelMPI and other commercial MPI distributions
- HPC schedulers including: Platform LSF, PBS Pro, OpenPBS, Condor and Sun Grid Engine
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Additional FDTD Solutions Resources
These additional resources are located on Lumerical's website.
