CAE FOR PHOTONIC WAVE-GUIDE DEVICES

A complete design environment for the CAE of photonic waveguide device s is presented including layout editor, databases, and simulation algo rithms such as modal analysis techniques and two-dimensional and three -dimensional propagation algorithms based on finite difference approxi mations, Databases are introduced covering the material properties and the parametric description of waveguide profiles and basic components , Considered materials are III/V semiconductors, silica, glass, LiNbO3 , and polymers, A constructive circuit generation based on the connect ion of basic components is described, The realization of these differe nt tools by using the benefits of object-oriented programming is illus trated, and an example shows the effectiveness of this approach.