Lumerical Solutions’ FDTD Solutions 7.0 Delivers Optimization and Conformal Meshing to Photonic Design

Lumerical Solutions Inc., a global provider of nanophotonic design software, today unveiled innovative improvements to its flagship product FDTD Solutions 7.0. Improvements to FDTD Solutions 7.0 include an integrated parameter sweep and optimization environment, industry's first conformal mesh for nanophotonic design, an extended set of simulation primitives to facilitate the design of complex devices and support for Mac OS X.

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