CHATOYANT - A COMPUTER-AIDED-DESIGN TOOL FOR FREE-SPACE OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Chatoyant is a tool for the simulation and the analysis of heterogeneo us free-space optoelectronic architectures. It is capable of modeling digital and analog electronic and optical signal propagation with mech anical tolerancing at the system level. We present models for a variet y of optoelectronic devices and results that demonstrate the system's ability to predict the effects of various component parameters, such a s detector geometry, and system parameters, such as alignment toleranc es, on system-performance measures, such as the bit-error rate. (C) 19 98 Optical Society of America.