'Click and play' microscopic many-body laser design.

SimuLase^TM is the first software tool that allows a broad audience to take full advantage of the latest advances in semiconductor theory that have revolutionized device modeling over the past decade. It fully eliminates the need to rely on fit-parameters and phenomenological laws (like the ABC-law for carrier losses) that used to put large error margins right at the start of device simulations, required strong feedback from the experiment and lead to wrong tendencies. Instead, SimuLase's fully microscopic models allow to predict quantitatively correct the fundamental characteristics like absortion/gain- and PL-spectra as well as carrier losses due to radiative and Auger processes based only on well known basic material parameters.

This gives you the correct starting point in developping new devices, cuts down design/growth/redesign-loops, lets you find accuratly and reliably optimized solutions, or can be used to analyze existing devices.

Best of all: You don't have to be an expert in microscopic manybody physics. SimuLase can preset all parameters - taking full advantage of the fit-parameter free nature of the microscopic models. For quick shots or research interests, SimuLase allows to influence the calculation parameters or use simplified models.

The results can be imported into other software for the modelling of 'classical' phenomena like light propagation and electrical or heat transport - this time starting with the correct description of the active region.

A free demo-version of SimuLase^TM is now available!

• easy to use GUI to set up heterostructures, check level positions, mode confinement, ... • various material choices (AlGaAs, InGaAsP, GaInNAs, etc.), • variable structure design (SQW, MQW, SL, GRINSCH, ...), • includes SimuLase_AnalyzerTM for easy analysis of results, • educational version available at reduced price, • multi-processor option, • free downloadable demo.

Take the guesswork out of laser design and analysis.

GainDatabases can be set up by NLCSTR as part of a consulting agreement or by using SimuLase^TM.
GainDatabases are comprehensive collections of essential material properties that are at the heart of all operational characteristics of optoelectronic semiconductor devices. These properties, like gain, absorption, photo luminescence, radiative and Auger carrier losses, etc., are the starting point for every device simulation. No simulation can be expected to give reliable results if this basic input is incorrect.

Using state of the art models it is now possible to calculate all these properties with unprecedented accuracy, making these GainDatabases:

• comprehensive, • quantitatively predictive, • free of fit parameters, • experimentally verified, • importable in commercial simulators, • a simple GUI-assisted analysis, • free downloadable demo.

Whether you are working with integrated microsystems, meta-materials, optical storage devices, photonic devices or semiconductor lithography, you want a test and design process that offers the potential for first pass success. Plugging your design into the user-friendly GUI allows for easy modeling of sub-wavelengths structures in either 2D or 3D, saving both time and money prior to manufacture.

Sim3D_Max^TM is designed to run as a stand-alone program as well as an easy interface with DIFFRACT^TM Optical System Software. Powered by Acceleware^TM to speed up work on a single CPU, Sim3D_Max^TM is also fully scalable for unrestricted parallel processing in multi-processor systems.

• Parallel implementation for multiprocessor systems and clusters. • Possible tenfold speed up with AccelewareTM hardware. • Compatibile with DIFFRACTTM software. • Non-uniform grids in 2D and 3D. • Dispersive, metal and dielectric material models. • PML, PEC, periodic and Floquet-Bloch boundary conditions. • Planewave, Gaussian, dipole, waveguide and userdefined sources. • User friendly GUI for set up and post processing.