BOSIM
Photonic Device Modeling and Simulation Environment
Silicon photonic circuits are revolutionizing computing systems and improving their energy efficiency, bandwidth, and latency. Optical modulators, such as microresonators and Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs), are the basic silicon photonic devices. BOSIM is developed to holistically exploring silicon photonic devices and cuicuits.
BOSIM is a SPICE-compatible electro-optical silicon photonic device design, modeling, and simulation enviroment. It can systematically study optical modulators based on PN, PIN, and metal-insulator-silicon (MIS) capacitor device technologies. BOSIM models both transient and steady state properties, such as switching speed, power, transmission spectrum, area and carrier distribution. BOSIM is validated by the fabricated devices from Intel, Bell labs, IBM, Cornell, PETRA, ETRI, CAS, and HKUST.
Project Member: Yuxiang Fu, Yi-Shing Chang (Intel), Jiang Xu, Jun Feng, Jiaxu Zhang, Shixi Chen
Maintained by: Yuxiang Fu (yuxiang.fu@connect.ust.hk). If there is any inquiry or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Past Member: Xuanqi Chen, Zhifei Wang
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AGREEMENT
BOSIM is made openly available under the following license. Please cite the following paper if it is used.
- Xuanqi Chen, Zhifei Wang, Yi-Shing Chang, Jiang Xu, Jun Feng, Peng Yang, Zhehui Wang, Luan H. K. Duong, ”Modeling and Analysis of Optical Modulators Based on Free-Carrier Plasma Dispersion Effect,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 977-990, May 2020. [PDF]
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