PRESS RELEASE
25 March 2024
Contact:
Chris.Maloney@VPIphotonics.com
Announcing VPIphotonics Design Suite – Version 11.5
The new version of the industry-leading design software is on display at OFC 2024, Booth #3611.
VPIphotonics Design Suite comprises professional application-specific simulation tools and add-on toolkits for photonic components and optical transmission systems. They offer flexible usability, design process, and analysis capabilities.
"Version 11.5 advances the simulation and design flow for many applications," stated André Richter, General Manager of VPIphotonics. "This includes direct detection and coherent transmission systems, free-space optics-based satellite communications, spatial division multiplexing, passive photonic devices, semiconductor optical lasers and amplifiers, and more."
Figure 1: VPIphotonics Design Suite Version 11.5 User Interface
The shortlist of new features in Version 11.5 comprises:
• Macro for creating coherent M-QAM-based WDM transmission systems
• 1.6Tb ZR-based coherent superchannel solution using
4 x DP-16QAM channels
• Multi-parallel optical DAC architecture for 64-QAM coherent systems
• Performance estimation of statistically rare scintillation events in an FSO link
• GEO satellite-to-ground link with pointing and coupling losses using FEC
• Model for weakly coupled homogeneous and heterogeneous multicore fibers
• Calculation of LLR and GMI for PAM-M signals
• DFE/FFE with adapted control options to accommodate different use cases
• Balanced photodetection model with control of responsivity imbalance and CMRR
• Macro for designing multi-section semiconductor devices
• Model and macro for passive photonic devices based on
S-matrix input files
• SiPh MMI coupler based on an S-matrix file pre-created with VPIdeviceDesigner
• PPLN model with improved controls and extended documentation
• Random distributed feedback fiber laser with a mirrorless open cavity
• Access to physical constants in the Parameter Editor
• Macro to convert physical quantities and units
• Draw.io-based diagrams/equations on your schematic
• Cosimulation with Jupyter Notebook for prototyping
Version 11.5 provides access to more than 900 ready-to-run simulation setups. New and improved demo examples illustrate the application of the new features and modules.
About VPIphotonics
VPIphotonics sets the industry standard for end-to-end photonic design automation comprising design, analysis and optimization of devices, components, systems and networks. We provide professional simulation software supporting applications in optoelectronics, integrated photonics, fiber optics, optical transmission systems and networks. Our experts offer professional consulting services and training courses on modeling techniques and software capabilities.
For 25+ years, VPIphotonics' award-winning solutions have been used extensively in research and development and by product design and marketing teams at hundreds of corporations worldwide. Over 160 academic institutions joined our University Program, enabling students, educators and researchers easy access to VPIphotonics' latest modeling and design innovations.
More information is available at www.VPIphotonics.com.