Optica Advanced Photonics Congress

This session will discuss some of the current challenges in advanced photonics manufacturing.  Panellists will discuss an array of familiar and emerging material technologies.

This interactive session will feature manufacturing topics from each topical meeting represented at the congress.  Come to talk with your colleagues and find out about the challenges and opportunities discussed in sessions at the congress.

Join this workshop to get up to speed on the industry-standard photonic simulation workflow that works seamlessly with foundry requirements. We show how to design and optimize photonic components and circuits for a particular foundry using the process design kit (PDK) and discuss layout generation options.

In this session, we are joined by our foundry partner, Tower Semiconductor, to highlight the success of this method in enabling photonic designers to have their best designs fabricated. A DWDM Circuit is used as an example to demo:

• Custom component design using a foundry process file. This involves multiphysics simulation of a ring modulator to characterize waveguide modes, optoelectronic properties, and the S-parameters of the coupling region.
• Compact model generation with CML Compiler.
• Photonic Circuit simulation in INTERCONNECT using the component and foundry components from the PDK. 

This hands-on workshop allows users from both academic and commercial backgrounds to run the demo, but it will also interest those who want to watch.

Provided by Ansys: Fatema Chowdhury, James Pond, Kishor Ramaswamy, Khashayar Ghaffari