Online Seminar | May 7, 2025 | 10:00 AM EST 

Fabrication-Aware PIC Design With PDK Support

Introduction

PhotonForge is a unified platform for fabrication-aware photonic design. It accelerates your photonic device design process by seamlessly integrating with simulation tools -Tidy3D FDTD, mode, heat, and RF solver. With built-in access to foundry PDKs, PhotonForge simplifies the transition from design to fabrication.

This seminar provides an in-depth look at how foundry-provided Process Design Kits (PDKs) are integrated within PhotonForge to build accurate simulation models. Showcase how to leverage the technology stack to design new photonic components, incorporate them into their design library, and utilize technology updates to study the impact of fabrication variations on PIC performance.

You will learn:

  • Learn how to load foundry provided PDKs into PhotonForge.
  • Inspect and customize your technology stack for multiple material platforms, Si, SiN, III-V, and TFLN.
  • Build accurate simulation models for PDK components.
  • Develop and optimize custom components compatible with existing fabrication processes.
  • Assess how fabrication variations impact system-level PIC performance.

 

Who should attend?
  • Photonic Engineers – Stay updated with the latest technology in photonic design. Breakthrough performance limits and achieve your targets more efficiently than ever before.
  • Students – Enhance your simulation expertise and build advanced skills to automate processes, accelerating data collection and gaining insights more quickly. This experience will prepare you for real-world challenges and make you stand out in the job market.
  • Faculties – Equip your students with the most powerful simulation tools to advance their learning. By consolidating all simulation efforts and results in one collaborative platform, you can gain the visibility of research activities, increase the impact of your research, and onboard new students more efficiently.

Speaker

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Prashanta Kharel 

Ph. D. Physics

Yale University

Unified platform for fabrication-aware photonic design

The First End-to-End Photonic Automation Design Tool

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