joamatab / awesome_photonics

😎 curated list of open source photonics projects

Hi I'm Joaquin 👋

Im a hardware engineer at Google X bringing affordable internet to developing countries.

• 🔭 I’m currently working on project Taara
• 🌱 I love open source tools for layout, simulation and data analysis, such as gdsfactory
• 👯 I’m always looking for awesome photonics tools

awesome_photonics's Issues

Add a new simulation tool to curated list?

Hi Joaquin, we just open sourced an FMM/RCWA code, FMMAX (under MIT license). We'd be thankful if you add it to your list. Cheers!

Add PySerial to "control instruments in the lab" section

PySerial is a great way to issue simple serial commands (RS-232, RS485) to instruments (and read data). It's much easier to install than installing all of NI VISA and using PyVISA (though sometimes you need to go this):
https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial

time domain circuit solver for photonics?

i find simphony great to use for linear circuit solver, to simulate the Sparameters in frequency domain

It would be great to find a tool to simulate eye diagrams, RC models for phase shifters ...

NLSE and LLE simulations

In the simulation section, you may consider including some packages for the nonlinear schrodinger equation (NLSE) to calculate the propagation of pulses along a fiber/waveguide in the presence of dispersion and nonlinearity and the Lugiato Lefever Equation (LLE) to calculate propagation in ring resonators:

NLSE:
Laserfun aims for simplicity: https://github.com/DanHickstein/laserfun
PyNLO is more capable, but unmaintained: https://github.com/pyNLO/PyNLO
cfredrick's fork of PyNLO is essentially it's own thing, and has Chi2 simulation capabilities: https://cdfredrick.github.io/PyNLO/build/html/index.html

LLE:
PyGLLE is nice and simple: https://github.com/omelchert/pyGLLE
PyLLE has more features: https://usnistgov.github.io/pyLLE/