New RSoft Release Available

The latest version of the RSoft Photonic Device Tools is now available. Version 2022.09-1 delivers enhanced integration with Sentaurus TCAD to increase the usability and performance advantage of the Synopsys design flow for optoelectronic devices such as phase shifters, photodetectors, and CMOS image sensors. Enhancements include:

• An application-specific wizard to jumpstart new projects
• Support for the direct use of Workbench variables (@ expressions) in RSoft CAD project scripts
• Optical designs can be individually opened for each experiment to view the geometry and project settings or to run optical simulations asynchronously from the Workbench flow
• A new CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) example
  

MetaOptic Designer, Synopsys’ unique inverse-design tool for quickly and efficiently designing and simulating metalenses and metasurfaces, offers new capabilities:

• Can include lenses designed in Synopsys’ CODE V imaging design software
• Faster performance with more granular option/output controls
• Improved plotting, lens visualization, and material support
  

Other updates include enhanced performance of the RSoft BSDF User Defined Optical Property (UDOP), including improved multi-threading scaling. The BSDF UDOP provides rigorous electromagnetic simulation data to be used within Synopsys’ LightTools ray tracing software for AR/VR systems, displays, and other applications.

The Sentaurus TCAD improvements listed for the RSoft Photonic Device Tools are also available in Photonic Device Compiler.