Photon Design will showcase simulation tool innovations at SPIE Photonics West, booth 3452, and feature in customer’s academic and commercial presentations.
15 January 2026 - Photon Design, a global leader in photonic simulation CAD software, will exhibit at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, 20–22 January, Booth 3452. The company will highlight its latest simulation tool innovations, HAROLD (QD), MT-FIMMPROP and EPIPPROP. Its simulation tools will also be featured in academic presentations and commercial demonstrations elsewhere at the show. Photon Design’s EME simulators enable rapid, 3D simulations with minimal processing overheads. A standard laptop PC will take only minutes to process EME simulations where industry-standard, FDTD-based simulations would take many hours - often utilising expensive cloud resources.
Dr. Dominic Gallagher, CEO of Photon Design, stated, “The HAROLD (QD) simulator is used to design epitaxy structures in quantum dot lasers. QD lasers are essential to the development of next-generation data centers, AI, and HPC applications, due to their high-temperature reliability, modulation, data transmission, heat reduction, and power efficiency benefits. Next we have the new Multi-Topology (MT)-FIMMPROP simulator, which supports the native design of pioneering TFLN, Mach-Zehnder Modulators, essential for high-data-rate photonics applications. Finally, the updated EPIPPROP simulator streamlines the design of arrayed waveguides (AWGs), with a slot waveguide option for polarisation sensitive applications coming soon.
“Photon Design’s FIMMPROP simulation tool will feature in Aalto University’s Dr. Paul Verrinder’s presentation, “Regrowth-free, monolithic integration platform on GaAs using vertical twin waveguides”, where it simulates a gallium arsenide, near 970 nm, monolithic platform used for developing active-to-passive coupling tapers between vertically separated waveguides. (Tuesday 20 January 2026 at 5:20 PM in Room 3022, Moscone West, Level 3). FIMMWAVE has also been used by Dr Juniyali Nauriyal, CEO of Photonect (www.photonectcorp.com) for developing laser assisted, fiber-to-chip optical interconnect technology, demonstrated at the Nextcorps LUMINATE, booth 258. By eliminating the need for epoxy, highly efficient coupling is achieved, with FIMMWAVE simulated losses below half a dB per facet, at 1310 nm, when coupling to third party, photonic devices.”
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