Numerical Simulation of Photonic Systems
Supports design of new photonic systems including short-range, access, metro, long haul and submarine optical transmission systems as well as development of technology upgrade and component substitution strategies for existing optical networks. Numerical simulations are based on Matlab® and on photonic design automation tools by VPIphotonicsTM. The software runs on powerful GPU-supported simulation server clusters to shorten simulation times even for very complex and computationally demanding system designs.
Featured Simulation Types
Verification and optimization of link designs
- Dispersion-managed and dispersion-uncompensated links
- Terrestrial and submarine link design
- EDFA, Raman amplification and hybrid amplification schemes
- Mixed fiber type infrastructures
- Upgrade scenarios for legacy link designs
Investigation and optimization of photonic systems technologies
- Coding
- Modulation
- Performance monitoring
- Impairment mitigation
- Regeneration
- Digital signal processing
Evaluation of novel component and subsystems designs in a systems context
- New fiber types (e.g. single-mode, multi-mode, multi-core)
- Electronic components (e.g. drive amplifiers, DAC, ADC, TIA)
- Opto-electronic components (e.g. modulators, coherent frontends)
- All-optical components (e.g. WSS, ROADM , SOA, HNLF)
- VPItransmissionMakerTM and VPIcomponentMakerTM Version 9.0
- Matlab
- TESLA-GPU cluster
- Simulation server cluster