VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Lumerical will exhibit its industry-leading photonic simulation software, and two new products to be announced at OFC, in a hackathon, and at joint demonstrations and meet-the-expert sessions at OFC with leading design automation vendors Cadence, MathWorks, Mentor, and Zemax and photonics foundries AMF, CompoundTek, and TowerJazz. The activities provide opportunities to meet the experts and to gain hands-on exposure to fully integrated flows supporting compact model libraries (CMLs) and process design kits (PDKs) from photonic foundries, and to explore the implications of Lumerical's announcement of two new products, designed to accelerate the proliferation of commercial photonic integrated circuits. Editors can schedule interviews with Lumerical founders Adam Reid, VP Engineering and James Pond, CTO or schedule time with Lumerical's experts and ecosystem partners by emailing Email Contact.

When: March 3-7 
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

Featured Events:
Sunday, March 3, 2019
09:00am-1:00pm | SC432 – Hands on: Silicon Photonics Component Design & Fabrication
Model silicon photonic components, design and fabricate simple passive PICs.
8:00-10:00pm | Lab Automation Hackathon | Room 17B, Mezzanine Level
Learn to use a Photonic Inverse Design tool using Python via our Automation API.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019
11:00-12:30pm | Lumerical / Zemax: From nano-scale to macro-scale optics and back | Room 17B, Mezzanine Level
We present Lumerical/OpticStudio interoperability, allowing for the design and analysis of optics systems that include both macroscopic optics and nanoscale features.

Lumerical product experts will be on-hand at Booth #5438 during the exhibition. See https://www.lumerical.com/learn/event/ofc-conference-2019/ for schedule updates.

About Lumerical
Lumerical develops photonic simulation software – tools which enable product designers to understand light, and predict how it behaves within complex structures, circuits, and systems. Since being founded in 2003, Lumerical has grown to license its design tools in over 50 countries and its customers include 10 of the top 15 companies in the S&P 1200 Global IT index, and 46 of the top 50 research universities as rated by the Times Higher Education rankings. Lumerical's substantial impact on the photonic design and simulation community means its tools are among the most widely cited in the scientific press, with references in more than 10,000 academic publications and patents. Lumerical enables its customers to achieve more with light, and establish a leading position in the development of transformative technologies employing photonics.

SOURCE Lumerical