Lumerical for Ansys Gateway: Auto-scaling cluster support has been added for CSP Marketplace solutions. This new feature allows users to quickly scale their workloads without needing to be AWS or Azure experts.
Lumerical Automation API:
historyon and histoyoff script commands are now available for all Lumerical products. Disabling history snapshots will improve simulation performance when multiple simulations are needed, for example, for inverse design in lumopt.
Documentation for Lumerical Python API has been updated with new articles and examples related to the general usage of the automation library.
Ansys Lumerical FDTD
FDTD GPU Performance: The general performance of GPU computing on Windows has been improved. The use of multiple GPUs (physical or via cloud VMs) to run FDTD on Windows has been enabled, allowing for better performance scaling with hardware. Single GPU simulation performance was also improved. Issues related to multi-GPU computation, including an issue that caused oversubscription of the first GPU, and an issue that caused errors with time monitor, have also been fixed.
Lossy Materials in RCWA: Warning and error messages in the log file have been added for when lossy materials are present in either the first (injection) or last layer. The RCWA documentation has also been updated to discuss behavior with lossy materials and potential workarounds.
Ansys Lumerical Multiphysics
SPAD Sensor: A new Application Gallery example on the calculation of SPAD Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE) has been published.
Ansys Lumerical INTERCONNECT
Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Laser: A new FMCW laser source has been added in INTERCONNECT. This enables evaluation of circuit designs for LiDAR applications by providing an ideal FMCW source that can serve as a design target for actual laser designs. The FMCW laser works similar to a continuous wave laser (CWL) but includes an input that controls the emission wavelength. An Application Gallery article on LiDAR design using the new source has also been published.
Traveling Wave Laser Model (TWLM): Documentation for the Traveling Wave Laser Model (TWLM) has been improved to include an index page that discusses the basic operating principles of the model, and multiple in-depth pages discussing various parameters for the model.