JCMsuite is the finite element solver for the computation of electromagnetic waves in complex nano-optical systems. The continuum mechanics and heat conduction moduls allows for modeling complicated materials such as stress-induced birefringence. The included optical imaging and light source tools complete the workflow for the simulation of an entire wave optical system, such as a microscope, a scatterometer, or single photon source including chip-fiber-coupling and incoherence effects.
Application areas of JCMsuite
Computational Lithography
JCMsuite allows for the complete optical simulation chain: the description of complex illuminations, the computation of optical fields propagating through optical imaging systems and through photomasks up to the formation of images in photoresists.
Computational Metrology
The development of fast and rigorous simulation techniques together with designed measurment setups allows for optical metrology approaches in deep subwavelength regimes.
Waveguides and Fibers
JCMsuite computes waveguide modes and corresponding propagation constants for all kinds of waveguides including single- and multimode fibers, photonic crystal fibers, microstructured fibers, integrated optical waveguides, plasmonic waveguides. Mode computation in cylindrical and twisted coordinate systems allows to rigorously compute the effect of waveguide bending.
Photovoltaics
JCMsuite supports all aspects of improving the photovoltic efficiency: analysis of the efficiency of layer structures and material compositions, the effect of random and micro-structured layers, backreflectors and surfaces, plasmonic effects of regular or randomly distributed plasmonic particles and nonlinear effects including frequency conversion.
Light Sources
Light sources such as laser diodes, VCSELs, LEDs, OLEDs, and single-photon sources are fundamental building blocks of optical devices. JCMsuite allows for the efficient simulation and optimization of their optical properties, including far field distributions, fiber-coupling efficiencies and thermal lensing effects.
Nanostructured Materials
JCMsuite allows for the design and analysis of the optical properties of new nanostructured materials. Examples are plasmonic materials, chiral materials, photonic crystals and quasi-crystals, metamaterials, rough interfaces, nanocomposites, and others.
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