Draft:Optiwave Systems
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| Company type | Privately held company |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Jan Jakubczyk |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | OptiSystem OptiInstrument OptiSPICE OptiFDTD OptiBPM OptiFiber OptiGrating OptiMode |
| Website | optiwave.com |
Optiwave Systems Inc. is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Optiwave develops and distributes computer-aided engineering software for the design and testing of photonic components and systems.
History[edit]
In the early 1990s, the National Optics Institute (INO) developed an optical modeling software to simulate the propagation of light in optical waveguides via the beam propagation method. This software, called BPM_
In 1996, the company relocated its headquarters from Quebec City to Ottawa, Ontario.[2] In the late 1990s, Optiwave released its OptiGrating and OptiFiber products for the simulation of light propagation in optical gratings and optical fiber, respectively. In the 2000s, the company released photonic component-level simulation software (OptiMode, OptiFDTD) implementing a range of numerical solvers, including the alternating-direction implicit method, finite element method, and finite-difference time domain method. In addition, the company released its OptiSystem tool for the design and simulation of optical communications modules and systems.[3]
In the 2010s, Optiwave released a SPICE software, branded as OptiSPICE, to handle optoelectronic circuit simulation. In the late 2010s, OptiSPICE adopted a software plug-in model for compatibility with 3rd party EDA tools, such as Siemens EDA's Tanner.[4] Most recently, in the early 2020s, Optiwave partnered with EXFO to develop a software tool for automated testing of photonic integrated circuits.[5]
Products[edit]
- OptiSystem
- OptiInstrument
- OptiFDTD
- OptiBPM
- OptiFiber
- OptiGrating
- OptiMode
Reference section[edit]
- ^ Khelfaoui, Mahdi; Bernier, Luc (2023-08-30). "Research and technology organizations as entrepreneurship instruments: the case of the Institut National d'Optique in the Canadian optics and photonics industry". Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 12 (1): 52. doi:10.1186/s13731-023-00321-z. ISSN 2192-5372.
- ^ "BAnQ numérique". numerique.banq.qc.ca (in French). Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ^ LightReading (October 7, 2003). "Optiwave Optimizes OptiSystem".
- ^ Ge, Sawyer (January 29, 2020). "Optiwave Introduces OptiSPICE plugin for Tanner". GlobeNewswire.
- ^ Magazine, P. I. C. "Multi-vendor collaboration delivers faster, reliable PIC testing - PIC Magazine News". PIC (Photonics Integrated Circuits). Retrieved 2024-01-12.