Photonics simulation tools

Sequential ray tracing for lenses, mirrors and prisms — spot diagrams, aberrations, MTF and glass selection

Non-sequential ray tracing for illumination and stray light — irradiance maps, far-field intensity, scatter and ghost paths ranked by power

Reflectance, transmittance and absorption of multilayer coatings — AR, mirrors, filters

Diffraction efficiency vs wavelength and angle — binary, blazed and sinusoidal gratings; crossed gratings and metasurfaces in Pro

Diffraction angles, dispersion and resolving power from the grating equation

Reflection and transmission at an interface — s/p polarization, Brewster angle, total internal reflection

Effective index, mode profiles, dispersion and bend loss for silicon and SiN waveguides

Microring filters, modulators and sensors — through/drop spectra, FSR, Q, critical coupling

Vπ, extinction ratio, chirp and transfer function for silicon and lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulators

Eye diagrams, TDECQ, BER and link budget for NRZ and PAM4 links

Waist, divergence and spot size through a chain of lenses and mirrors (ABCD, M²)

Etalon transmission, FSR and finesse — plus laser cavity stability and beam size

Chain polarizers and wave plates — Jones matrices, Stokes parameters and the Poincaré sphere

Refractive index n(λ) and k(λ) for 3,560+ materials, usable directly in every tool

Wavelength, frequency, photon energy and wavenumber — including bandwidth and linewidth conversion