OptiGrating: Efficient Optical Grating Simulation and Design

Emerging as a de facto standard over the last decade, OptiGrating has delivered powerful and user-friendly design software for modeling integrated and fiber optic devices that incorporate optical grating parameters. OptiGrating uses the Coupled Mode Theory to model the light and enable analysis and synthesis of gratings.

A complex grating is approximated by a sequence of uniform segments, and analyzed by connecting the segments with the well-known Transfer Matrix Method. This gives the designer the information needed to test and optimize grating designs.

As an optical grating simulation and design program, OptiGrating was built from the ground up to be accessible to a wide range of users, from enterprising students to adept researchers. The highly accurate Transfer Matrix Method allows both students and engineers to run reliable simulations on complex grating designs.

This software can be used for dispersion compensation, waveguide sensors, and so much more. Get a quick overview of our powerful OptiGrating software below and learn the ins and outs through our detailed tutorials. Follow our interactive walkthrough of the Fiber Bragg grating design process with the step-by-step instructions video explaining the menu. A complex grating is approximated by a sequence of uniform segments, and analyzed by connecting the segments with the well-known Transfer Matrix Method. This gives the designer the information needed to test and optimize grating designs.

Applications

• WDM add/drop, narrow and broadband fiber and waveguide filters 

• Fiber Bragg reflectors  
• EDFA gain flattening elements 
• Dispersion compensators for fiber communications 
• Sideband suppression using grating apodization
• Fiber and waveguide sensors 
• Long Period Gratings with coupling to cladding modes

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