PhotonForge integrates with foundry PDKs to speed up the design, simulation, and verification cycle for photonic integrated circuits.
Quick Start

Unified platform for fabrication-aware photonic design

Through accurate simulations and fabrication-aware designs, PhotonForge enables photonic designers to avoid costly tape-out errors, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce development costs of integrated photonics sollutions.
Seamless integration with simulation tools

Access GPU accelerated multi-physics solvers (FDTD, MODE, RF, Charge) for up to 500x speed up in component-level simulations

Access to foundry PDKs

Create foundry-aware and tape-out ready designs, saving time from design to manufacturing

Circuit simulations, both frequency and time-domain

End-to-end system-level simulation of both active and passive devices

Powerful Layout Editor

Use python scripting or web GUI to do layout of photonic components and build parametric cells (PCells) that can be easily transferred between different foundry processes

Other Salient Features
  • Schematic-driven layout capability
  • Unified interface for multi-physics simulations
  • Process variation studies
  • Cloud-native platform for data management and collaboration
  • Extensive example libraries and documentation
Intuitive PIC layout editor
Case Studies
Get inspired to design your own devices

Foundry-Ready End-to-End Photonic Active Design with PhotonForge

In this case study, we demonstrate loading a foundry PDK, performing RF and optical simulations, conducting time-domain analyses, and generating fabrication-ready layouts — all within a single interface. The example features an ultra-high-speed electro-optic modulator in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN).

Layout of a quantum processor chip

This case study showcases powerful layout and routing capabilities in PhotonForge through the design of a two-qubit quantum processor chip. We demonstrate full-chip layout implementation with comprehensive electrical and optical routing.
Testimonials
Recommendations from our customers
"We believe that PhotonForge is the right approach to photonic circuit simulations. It allows us to accurately simulate components with the powerful Tidy3d engine and seamlessly integrate them into circuits and layout, using Python code or the GUI. [...] This opens up new options for our designs and also saves a lot of time. As a startup the credit system helps us not spending more than we need, and the support has been superb."
Miguel Carro Temboury
Senior Optical Design Engineer at Bifrost Communications
"With PhotonForge it's extremely simple to define the material stack of any integrated photonics technology, and validating the operation of photonic building blocks or whole circuits is a matter of a few lines of code. Similar to Tidy3d, the engineer's task is facilitated by top-notch documentation and examples, and by excellent customer support by the tool developers themselves."
Alberto Beccari
Head of Photonic Design at Luxtelligence
"PhotonForge provides us with intuitive integration to Tidy3D, easy scripting and 3D viewing of complex photonic circuits, in addition to robust automation features, such as automatic port detection based on path profiles and automated simulation boundary definitions. Combined with the extensive component library, the user-friendly GUI simplifies our design and debugging process, while also allowing us to leverage the FDTD performance offered by Tidy3D.”
Szilard Szoke
Staff Engineer, Photonic Design at Quintessent

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Short Guides
PhotonForge overview
These brief guides help you define material stacks, load foundry PDKs, build complex PIC layouts, and simulate components for creating compact models.
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Example Library
PhotonForge use cases
Explore our extensive example library to discover the full potential of PhotonForge.
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