Luminous

2D OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE SIMULATOR

Luminous is an advanced device simulator specially designed to model light absorption and photogeneration in non-planar semiconductor devices. Exact solutions for general optical sources are obtained using geometric ray tracing. This feature enables Luminous to account for arbitrary topologies, internal and external reflections and refractions, polarization dependencies and dispersion. Luminous also allows optical transfer matrix method analysis for coherence effects in layered devices. The beam propagation method may be used to simulate coherence effects and diffraction. Luminous is fully integrated within ATLAS with a seamless link to S-Pisces and Blaze device simulators, and other ATLAS device technology modules.

Rev. 081809_05