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White Papers

Our Articles and White Papers section will provide you with greater insight into the advanced capabilities of our line of design tools.

You will find a selection of presentations that will demonstrate how current trends in optical design can be addressed through the use of our software tools. Each presentation is accompanied by illustrated simulation results.

• OptiSystem
  Optical Communication System and Amplifier Design Suite

  NEW - 100 Gbps DP-QPSK System with Digital Signal Processing

  PDF:126 kb/3 pages

  An N-nary Optical Semiconductor Photonic Transistor using OptiSystem (Published in the November 2007 issue of SPIE Optical Engineering)

  PDF:1 MB/11 pages

  Introduction to Optical Systems
  PDF:2.2 MB / 49 pages

  Simulation of Advanced Photonic Components
  PDF: 1.2 MB / 23 pages

  40 Gb/s system in SMF
  PDF:1.4 MB / 20 pages

  WDM Communication Systems
  PDF:1.7 MB / 57 pages

  Metropolitan Optical Networks
  PDF:1.1 MB / 52 pages

  System Design Examples
  PDF:640 kb / 52 pages

  Application of OptiSystem in a Fiber Optics Telecommunications Program
  PDF:219 kb / 8 pages

• OptiSystem
  Amplifier Design Edition

  Introduction to Optical Amplifiers
  PDF:1.2MB / 59 pages

  Rare Earth-Doped Fibers
  PDF: 1.7 MB / 17 pages

  Transient Control for Cascaded EDFAs by using a multi-objective optimization approach
  PDF: 119 kb/ 9 pages

  Broadband Raman Amplifier Design
  PDF: 141 kb / 5 pages

  Transient Control in Raman Fiber Amplifiers
  PDF:640 kb / 11 pages

  Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers
  PDF:796KB / 101 pages

  Hybrid Amplifiers
  PDF:288KB / 26 pages

  Software Tools For Design And Optimization of Raman and Hybrid Amplifiers
  PDF: 932 KB / 53 pages

  Pulse Amplification with traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifier
  PDF: 2.3MB / 56pages

• OptiFDTD
  Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation Design

  NEW - Strong Broadband Optical Absorption in Silicon Nanowire Films
  PDF: 900kb / 10 pages

  NEW - Nano-lens and pixel simulations using OptiFDTD
  PDF: 2.5MB / 26 pages

  Field-programmable Gate Array Accelerates FDTD calcuations (OptiFDTD MAX)
  PDF: 2.5MB / 2 pages

  Optical Microring Resonator Filter Design Trade-Offs - Presentation with Simulation Images and Results
  PDF: 1.7MB / 23 pages

  Optical Microring Resonator Filter Design Trade-Offs
  PDF: 800kb / 6 pages

  Calculating the Coupling Efficiency Between Single Mode Fiber to Photonic Crystal Fiber using the FDTD method
  PDF: 137kb / 5 pages

  Waveguide design, modelling, and optimization – from photonic nano-devices to integrated photonic circuits
  PDF: 1.2 MB / 16 pages

  Wavefront Measurement Using Photonics Crystals
  PDF: 247kb / 5 pages

• OptiBPM
  Waveguide Optics Design Software

  Fiber Vector Modesolver - Improvements to the Efficient 4x4 Matrix Method
  PDF: 47 KB / 3 pages

  Advanced Photonic Circuit Simulation
  PDF: 270 KB / 11 pages

  Design of WDM Optical Components
  PDF: 916 KB / 27 pages

  Scalar Analysis of General Dielectric Waveguides by Fourier Decomposition Method and Lanczos Reduction
  PDF: 2.1 MB / 7 pages

  Coupling Between a Slab or Channel Waveguide and a Laterally Polished Fiber
  PDF: 150kb / 1 page

• OptiFiber
  Optical Fiber Design Software

  Designing Optical Fibers for WDM Applications
  PDF: 916 KB / 27 pages

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