Ghent, Belgium and Cambridge, United Kingdom – June 6, 2025
Luceda Photonics and Wave Photonics are proud to announce that Wave Photonics’ libraries are now fully integrated and compatible with the Luceda Photonics Design Platform. This integration provides Luceda users with seamless access to a broad portfolio of advanced photonic components from Wave Photonics.
Luceda users can now access Wave Photonics’ libraries, bringing thousands of components covering over 33 discrete wavelengths between 493 nm and 1550 nm. These include specialized libraries like the SiNQ library, tailored for quantum technologies including trapped ions and atoms, quantum dots, NV centers, and other emerging quantum systems. Luceda users can also benefit from Wave Photonics’ telecom libraries, which support multiple wavelength ranges such as the O-band, E-band, S-band, C-band, L-band, and U-band.
The Luceda Photonics Design Platform is an ideal platform for creating and distributing libraries using the central management of layout, fabrication-aware modeling, and verification. The libraries of Wave Photonics take advantage of those features and thus include fabrication-aware scattering parameters (S-parameters), enabling circuit-level simulation and yield analysis. When used within Luceda IPKISS, Wave Photonics' libraries can accelerate the development cycle from concept to chip tape-out by reducing the need for custom component design.
James Lee, Wave Photonics CEO, said, “Our PDKs now work out of the box with IPKISS – enabling users to quickly design and simulate a chip to see how it will behave. You can swap in different components and immediately see the impact on the whole circuit, including the impact of coupler choice on fiber coupling, before tape-out. Wave PDKs and Luceda’s layout and simulation tools move us towards right-first-time photonics design for networking, sensing and quantum technology-focused customers.”
Pierre Wahl, Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Luceda, said, “We are happy that designers now have access to such a rich library of components across a broad range of wavelength bands. The Luceda Photonics design platform allows designers to easily integrate those components in their designs and simulate the overall performance. Wave’s libraries give designers more options and significantly decrease the design time and risk.”
This collaboration marks an ongoing partnership between Luceda and Wave Photonics and is open to future updates to enhance the PIC design experience for PIC designers.
Contact Luceda and Wave today to access Wave Photonics’ libraries through the Luceda Photonics Design Platform!
About Luceda Photonics
Luceda Photonics is a leading provider of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design software and services. The Luceda Photonics Design Platform enables designers to design, simulate, and optimize photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and empowers photonic designers to quickly achieve their tape-out, getting their designs right the first time. For more information, visit www.lucedaphotonics.com.
About Wave Photonics
Wave Photonics, based in Cambridge, UK, develops cutting-edge design technology to drive the advancement and mass adoption of integrated photonics. The company uses a fabrication-aware computational model, to facilitate the rapid development of PIC designs. The company empowers engineers to design their chips for a wide range of wavelengths and many challenging applications, including telecom/datacom, space-comm, sensing, quantum, optical computing, and diagnostic and healthcare sensing. For more information, visit www.wavephotonics.com.
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