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VPItransmissionMaker™ & VPIcomponentMaker™ Version 8.7

VPItransmissionMaker/VPIcomponentMaker Version 8.7 provides many new modeling features, improved usability and advances in design process and data analysis compared to the previous version.

 

Version 8.7 supports the generation, transmission, detection and performance estimation of optical signals with multilevel modulation using arbitrary constellations (including CmQAM), and electrical driving pulse shapes (supporting for instance 1Tb/s Super Channel systems).

Version 8.7 enables a further reduction of simulation time by offering new applications for multithreading and GPU-assisted simulations. The handling of the Simulation Engine Driver (API of simulation engine) has been greatly improved and a new COM cosimulation interface is now offered.

Supporting the rapid modeling of large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs), VPIcomponentMaker™Photonic Circuits provides two new simulation techniques: the frequency-domain modeling approach with the SMATRIX simulation domain and the hybrid time-and-frequency-domain modeling (TFDM) approach based on the time-domain extension of the SMATRIX simulation domain.

 
Circular 16QAM Constellation 112Gb/s DP-QPSK on Poincare

Constellation of circular 16QAM realization with decision thresholds (left), 112Gb/s DP-QPSK on Poincare sphere in time domain (right)

 

Among the new features of Version 8.7 are

  • Generation, transmission, detection and performance estimation of optical signals with Multilevel Modulation using arbitrary constellations and arbitrary electrical driving pulse shapes
  • New applications for Multithreading and GPU-assisted simulations to further reduce simulation time
  • Great improvement of the handling of the Simulation Engine Driver (API of simulation engine)
  • New COM cosimulation interface allowing to implement a user module in C#, VB.NET, C++ etc
  • Rapid modeling of large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs) using VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits via two new simulation techniques (frequency-domain and time-and-frequency-domain modeling)
  • VPIphotonicsAnalyzer with new time-domain Poincare representation of optical signals and many usability improvements
 
Response of ROADM with DCE

Power transients of a ROADM with and without dynamic channel equalizer

 

Further on, Version 8.7 supports the simulation of

  • high-speed and high-capacity systems (multilevel, 100G, OFDM, multi-carrier, super channel, ...)
  • automated performance estimation (receiver sensitivity, OSNR penalty, ...)
  • New analytical S21 description of differential MZM based on physical parameters
  • New amplified dispersion-managed fiber span with a dynamic electronic gain clamping
  • optical networking with ROADMs and Dynamic Channel Equalizers
  • photonic integration, AWG design, Silicon Photonics
  • optical chip-to-chip communication, and many more.

Existing demonstrations have been modified and new ones added to illustrate the functionality and applications of the new features and modules. There are over 630 demonstrations available in the products now.

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