Development and Validation of a Nanophotonics Simulation Toolbox

Lumerical Solutions Inc.(不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华)围绕一种软件工具建立了一家蓬勃发展的公司，该软件工具已被证明是全球信息和通信技术(ICT SPG Target Area)设备和系统研发的关键组成部分。它们的成功在很大程度上要归功于通信和传感应用的出现，这些应用基于复杂的光学设备结构，这些结构不是由透镜制造商和仪器制造商制造的，而是由改编自微电子行业的先进光刻图案技术制造的。这些结构有时被称为微光子，通常包含具有数百纳米量级的特征尺寸的雕刻材料，与它们操纵的光的波长相当。结构-性质关系通常是非直观的，因此需要复杂的模拟。

Lumerical Solutions Inc. (Vancouver, BC) has built a thriving company around a software tool that has proven to be a critical component of worldwide R&D on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT SPG Target Area) devices and systems. Their success owes much to the emergence of communication and sensing applications based on sophisticated optical device structures that are fabricated not by lens makers and instrument builders, but rather by advanced lithographic patterning technologies adapted from the microelectronics industry. These structures, sometimes referred to as microphotonic, typically incorporate sculpted materials with characteristic dimensions on the order of hundreds of nanometers, comparable to the wavelength of light they manipulate. The structure-property relation is most often non-intuitive and therefore requires sophisticated simulations.