The first end-to-end
Photonic Design Automation

PhotonForge integrates with foundry PDKs to speed up the design,
simulation, and verification cycle for photonic integrated circuits.

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PHOTONFORGE
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Unified platform for fabrication-aware photonic design
Through accurate simulations and fabrication-aware designs, PhotonForge enables photonic designers to avoid costly tape-out errors, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce development costs of integrated photonics solutions.
Seamless integration with simulation tools

Access GPU-accelerated multi-physics solvers (FDTD, MODE, RF, Charge) for up to a 500x speed-up in component-level simulations.

Access to foundry PDKs

Create foundry-aware and tape-out-ready designs, saving time from design to manufacturing.

Circuit simulations, both frequency and time-domain

Perform end-to-end system-level simulations of both active and passive devices.

Powerful Layout Editor

Use python scripting or web GUI to do layout of photonic components and build parametric cells (PCells) that can be easily transferred between different foundry processes.

Intuitive PIC layout editor
Other Salient Features
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checked Unified interface for multi-physics simulations
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checked Cloud-native platform for data management and collaboration
checked Extensive example libraries and documentation
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CASE STUDIES

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Foundry-Ready End-to-End Photonic Active Design with PhotonForge
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Prashanta Kharel, PhD
Technology Strategist
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Layout of a quantum processor chip
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Prashanta Kharel, PhD
Technology Strategist

Testimonials

Recommendations from our customers

"We believe that PhotonForge is the right approach to photonic circuit simulations. It allows us to accurately simulate components with the powerful Tidy3d engine and seamlessly integrate them into circuits and layout, using Python code or the GUI. [...] This opens up new options for our designs and also saves a lot of time. As a startup the credit system helps us not spending more than we need, and the support has been superb."

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Miguel Carro Temboury
Senior Optical Design Engineer at Bifrost Communications

"With PhotonForge it's extremely simple to define the material stack of any integrated photonics technology, and validating the operation of photonic building blocks or whole circuits is a matter of a few lines of code. Similar to Tidy3d, the engineer's task is facilitated by top-notch documentation and examples, and by excellent customer support by the tool developers themselves."

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Alberto Beccari
Head of Photonic Design at Luxtelligence

"PhotonForge provides us with intuitive integration to Tidy3D, easy scripting and 3D viewing of complex photonic circuits, in addition to robust automation features, such as automatic port detection based on path profiles and automated simulation boundary definitions. Combined with the extensive component library, the user-friendly GUI simplifies our design and debugging process, while also allowing us to leverage the FDTD performance offered by Tidy3D.”

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Szilard Szoke
Staff Engineer, Photonic Design at Quintessent
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