Lumerical 2020a 1.1

Lumerical 2020a by Lumerical Inc. is a comprehensive photonics simulation suite designed to help engineers and researchers design, analyze, and optimize photonic components, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and optical systems. It integrates electromagnetic, electronic, and thermal solvers with system-level circuit simulation, enabling a consistent workflow from nanoscale device physics to full photonic system performance.

Key capabilities include:

• 3D electromagnetic simulation using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) for accurate modeling of nanophotonic structures, metasurfaces, and plasmonic devices.
• Waveguide and mode analysis with eigenmode and propagation solvers (e.g., EME/varFDTD/FEEM) for couplers, gratings, and fibers.
• Multiphysics device modeling (e.g., charge transport and thermal effects) to capture electro-optic and thermo-optic behavior in active components.
• System-level photonic circuit simulation (INTERCONNECT) with compact models for PIC design, verification, and link-level analysis.
• Automation, scripting, and data analysis through Lumerical Script and a Python API for parameter sweeps, optimization, and workflow integration.
• Interoperability with common design flows and file formats (such as GDSII) and support for foundry PDK-based design.
• Scalable performance on Windows and Linux with multithreading and HPC/cluster support for large simulations.

Lumerical 2020a is widely used in silicon photonics, datacom, sensing, quantum photonics, and nanophotonics R&D to reduce prototyping cycles, improve device performance, and accelerate time to market.

Lumerical 2020a is developed by Lumerical Inc.. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.1. The name of the program executable file is launcher.exe.