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PhoeniX Software is a leading supplier of professional software tools for the micro and nano technology industry. PhoeniX, with a highly skilled and experiencedteam in the various fields of micro and nano technology, supports costumers worldwide with its professional software. Typical products include software for mask lay-out and process flow visualisation, tools for advanced simulations and the leading manufacturing execution system dedicated to the field: the Living Database.

Integrated Optics & Photonics research and productdevelopment require an integrated design flow. Relatingall relevant information from specifications, technology, lay-out and performance is the key to successful research,development and manufacturing of photonic structures, devices and systems. PhoeniX Software enables you to create your design.

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erFlowDesigner is a versatile tool to depict the visualization of your process flows. It documents accurately all the fabrication steps within the fabrication process. FlowDesigner saves time and avoids trivial errors in the mask and process flow design. The depicted process steps can be exported as an animation, an html report, or as successive images per step.

FlowDesigner is the only available versatile software tool to visualise your process flows.

OptoDesigner provides the solution for light propagation simulations in integrated optics.

The BPM method supplies forward-only propagation for a large set of optical components. The algorithm is typically used for simulating optical telecom devices such as AWGs and Modulators, as well for sensingapplications, like Mach-Zehnder interferometers.FDTD is most suitable for small structures, which it can analyze in high detail. Complete spectra can be launched and evaluated. State of the art applications of the algorithm are Photonic Crystals and Ring Resonators. FAST enables the mixing of different simulation algorithms within one design. Field transitions are taken care of automatically to ensure optimal usability. Using FAST, optimizing the simulation time becomes trivial.

FieldDesigner is the ultimate mode solver for photonics.

BPMFDTDZone & FAST technologySeamless integration withMaskEngineer

Etching and depositing modelsDirect link with MaskEngineer

Advanced Mode Solving AlgorithmsBend Mode SimulationsThermo / Electro-opticsDirect link with OptoDesigner

MaskEngineer is the parametric chip and mask lay-out tool dedicated to integrated optics.

The basic concept of parametric mask layout is that structures are described using variables, or parameters. These variables can be either the properties of the element itself, or the relationship between the elements. Changing the parameters will change the properties of the elements. This way of describing a lay-out allows better control over complex designs.Describing relationships in a mathematical way reduces design time considerably. Re-use of designs becomes feasible. During the prototype stage variations in the design can be made simply within the software. MaskEngineer is essential in "tolerance focussed" design strategies.

Fully parametricExtensive standard librariesGDSII / CIF

Layout with a C-like script languageElement connectivity using portsGeometric calculationsPosition supportIterations / conditional partsUser definable element librariesUnlimited port countUnlimited parameter count

Hierarchy: re-use of earlier designsExtensive libraries for PhotonicsMathematical FunctionsImport and export to GDSII / CIFMulti-platform (Windows / Unix)

2D/3D Beam Propagation Methods (BPM)TE/TM (2nd and 4th order)PML and Hadley boundary conditionsWide-angle BPM up to Pade (3,3)2D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD)Spectral analysis (sources and probes)Temporal analysis (sources and probes)Generic sources (Gaussian fields, True Modal pulses, External field files, Point sources)

Real and Complex refractive indexesZone TechnologyFlexible Algorithm Selection Technology (FAST)Powerful Result processingAll layout features of MaskEngineerDirect export to mask formats such as GDSII and CIFDiscretization at layer levelExtensive Material and Element Library

1D and 2D mode solving based on Film Mode Matching and Finite DifferenceFull vectorial mode solvingReal and Complex mode solvingBend Mode SimulationThermo-Optics SimulationElectro-Optics Simulation

Full Parametric DesignEnvironmentScript based optimizationConnects directly to Beam Propagation software module OptoDesignerExtensive Material LibraryPowerful result processing

Integrated Optics & Photonics