Gold: Synopsys
Metalenses have the potential to revolutionize optical products by replacing bulky curved lenses with thin, flat surfaces. Metalenses are a key enabling technology for the next generation of compact imaging, sensing, and display applications. Synopsys is supporting this new world of innovation with MetaOptic Designer, an unprecedented inverse design tool that takes user-specified criteria and generates metalenses/metasurfaces for optimal system performance.
MetaOptic Designer is the industry’s first fully automated design tool for metaoptics with inverse design capabilities. When provided with a few basic inputs and the desired target patterns, MetaOptic Designer produces an optimized design. Validated by a rigorous finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, MetaOptic Designer is a fast, accurate tool that can produce reliable GDS files for fabrication. With its built-in intelligence, MetaOptic Designer makes metalens design faster and easier, enhances productivity, reduces design costs, and accelerates time to market.
Key features include:
- Automatically generates metalens/metasurface layouts, RSoft CAD files for simulation, and GDS files for fabrication
- Provides unique optimization algorithms to meet user-specified targets
- Requires minimal user inputs, such as basic lens system configurations, incident conditions, target patterns, and meta-atom library settings
- Is a standalone tool with its own graphical user interface
- Advanced and robust simulation algorithm supports full-vector field solutions in structures
