About This Webinar
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are a rapidly growing technology due to the unquenchable demand for high bandwidth communications in the data center. As the industry grows, new applications are being established to leverage the capabilities and advantages that PICs provide, and a robust design and manufacturing industry has arisen to meet these needs. Part of the need for industry maturation includes the development of a design process that accounts for manufacturing variations and imperfections prior to tape-out. Unfortunately, accounting for manufacturing realism adds to the computational cost of an already computationally expensive problem.
Photonic devices containing large components, such as micro-ring resonators and grating couplers, can be at the limits of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations and limit the ability to perform parameter scans over manufacturing variations. Adding parasitic and coupling effects from near-neighbor components as manufactured can also add to computational requirements. Finally, loss from the roughness of manufactured components, in addition to effects such as sidewall tapering, adds to the computational cost of even small singular components. The development of accelerated computing using distributed computing across multiple graphics processing units, as well as inexpensive and easily available high-performance computer platforms at Amazon Web Services, enables these manufacturing-aware explorations during design.
In this webinar, John Cary from Tech-X demonstrates these capabilities with XSim, a new, highly accurate FDTD simulation tool for PIC designers. Accounting for manufacturing variations and imperfections in the design with more accuracy improves tape-out confidence before submission of a design for fabrication and testing.
Who should attend:
R&D scientists, engineers, and manufacturers who work with photonic integrated circuits. Those who use nanophotonics, test and measurement, software, and semiconductors in their work. Anyone working in research or management within industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, optics, communications, and medicine.
About the presenter:
John R. Cary, Ph.D., is CTO and cofounder of Tech-X, a company whose products help design and predict systems involving electromagnetics and plasmas. Tech-X has contracts from industries, the government, and multiple software product lines. Cary has a strong computational research and development background, with more than 150 publications. His background helps ensure that Tech-X products are based on the most recent and advanced algorithms and computing developments, use the most advanced computing platforms, and are easily used by Tech-X customers. Cary received his degrees at the University of California at Irvine and Berkeley. He has worked for government labs at Los Alamos, in the private sector at Tech-X, and academia, retaining his position as a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he continues to be involved in the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers.
About Tech-X Corporation:
Tech-X Corporation is a provider of high-performance software simulating electromagnetic fields, charged particle motion, and plasmas for industrial applications.