학술논문
Simphony: An Open-Source Photonic Integrated Circuit Simulation Framework
Document Type
Periodical
Author
Source
Computing in Science & Engineering Comput. Sci. Eng. Computing in Science & Engineering. 23(1):65-74 Jan, 2021
Subject
Language
ISSN
1521-9615
1558-366X
1558-366X
Abstract
We present Simphony, a free and open-source software toolbox for abstracting and simulating photonic integrated circuits, implemented in Python. The toolbox is both fast and easily extensible; plugins can be written to provide compatibility with existing layout tools, and device libraries can be easily created without a deep knowledge of programming. We include several examples of photonic circuit simulations with novel features and demonstrate a speedup of more than 20× over a leading commercially available software tool.