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• September 2024
  New releases of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim, and RSoft Photonic Device Tools; TSRI internship, Epiphany partnership, and Foundry Spotlight on imec; partnership with PhotonDelta, and learn how you can streamline photonic design with ²ÝÁñÉçÇø' Cloud-Based SaaS Platform
  
  
• June 2024
  New Support Address, New releases: ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim Elite version 2023.12-SP2, RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.12-SP2, Foundry Spotlight: Tower Semiconductor, Illuminating the Future: The Promise and Challenges of Photonics, upcoming events
  
  
• March 2024
  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler 2023.12-SP1 and RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.12-SP1 Releases Now Available, Python Support in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim; Foundry Spotlight: Global Foundries; See you at OFC and other upcoming events
  
  
• December 2023
  Customer Support Hours in December; New Releases Available: ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim 2023.12, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler 2023.12, RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.12; Latest Blog Articles; Application Notes; Foundry Spotlight: SMART Photonics
  
  
• October 2023
  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim 2023.03-SP1 release; RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.03-1 release; Foundry Spotlight: Sivers Photonics; Designing PAM4 Transceiver PICs and Measuring TDECQ in ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler E-O Co-Design Platform; Can Photonics Power Next-Gen AI Chatbots?
  
  
• June 2023
  Software Updates: ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler and ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim 2023.03-SP1 and RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.03-1; Foundry Spotlight, Modeling Improvements for Photonic Integrated Circuits
  
  
• March 2023
  New Releases of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoCompiler 2023.03, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim Base & Elite 2023.03, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptoDesigner 2023.03, RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2023.03; Upcoming Tech Talks; Blog Articles; SolvNetPlus Resources; Upcoming events; Industry articles
  
  
• December 2022
  Customer Support Hours in December, How Process Design Kits Streamline Photonic IC Development, What You Need to Know About Silicon Photonics, 2022 Photonic Symposium presentations on-demand, New Releases Available, MetaOptic Designer, SolvNetPlus Resources, Industry articles, Upcoming events
  
  
• August 2022
  Fully Automated Inverse Design Tool for Metalenses/Metasurfaces, Migration to SolvNetPlus in October 2022, New White Papers, Most Popular Application Note, Industry Articles
  
  
• June 2022
  Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø v2022.06 Releases Now Available, On-Demand Tech Talks, News, Blog, Popular Application Notes, Industry Articles, Upcoming Training and Events
  
  
• February 2022
  New Releases: 2021-09-2 service release, Photonics Spectra December issue article, blog article on photonics
  
  
• December 2021
  Optical ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Tech Support during the holidays, LucidDrive release, resources, and events
  
  
• November 2021
  Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 2021.09-1 Service Release Now Available, Photonic Symposium 2021 Recap and Materials On Demand, Co-Packaged Optics Paper, AIM Photonics Announcement, Training and Events
  
  
• September 2021
  Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 2021.09 Release Now Available, Photonic Symposium virtual event, Student Optical Design Competition 2021 Winners
  
  
• August 2021
  RSoft Photonic Device Tools 2021.03 Service Release 3 Now Available, Photonic Symposium - Save the Date, Tech Talk Recording: From Optical Fibers to Transceivers: Inter-Datacenter System Design
  
  
• July 2021
  New Application Note: Hollow Antiresonant Fibers with Reduced Attenuation, Save the Date: Photonic Symposium, Upcoming Tech Talk, On-Demand Resources
   

• May 2021
  Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Enhanced Electro-Photonic Design Platform with OptSim Elite and Photonic Device Compiler, Technical Paper, Online Tech Talk: From Optical Fibers to Transceivers: Inter-Datacenter System Design
  
  
• March 2021
  Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 2021.03 Release, Introducing OptSim Elite and Photonic Device Compiler, Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø New Features Presentation, Resources
  
  

• February 2021
  Upcoming ²ÝÁñÉçÇø webinars and conferences, "Testing Silicon Photonics in Production" Semiconductor Engineering article, glossary, Student Optical Design Competition, Optics for Kids, on-demand resources
  

• December 2020
  Holiday Tech Support, Customer Support Portal resources, Student Optical Design Competition, Other resources
  
  
• November 2020
  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Supports Academic Programs, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Has Unveiled a New Era of Photonic Integrated Circuit Design: OptoCompiler, New Application Note, New Software in Motion Video Coming Soon, Industry Publication, Blog, ECOC 2020

• October 2020
  Service Releases Now Available: Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø v2020.09-1, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Has Unveiled a New Era of Photonic Integrated Circuit Design: OptoCompiler, New Software in Motion Video Now Available, Day of Photonics 2020 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Webinar 
  

• September 2020
  Announcing OptoCompiler: Industry-First Unified Electronic and Photonic Design Platform; New RSoft Photonic Device Tools, Photonic System Tools, and PIC Design Suite Releases Now Available

• August 2020
  Special Event, New Feature Highlight, Software-in-Motion Video, On-Demand Resources

• July 2020
  New White Paper, Feature Highlight, July Webinars, On-Demand Resources

• May 2020
  New Application Note, PDK Updates on the Blog, May Webinar Recordings, On-Demand Resources, Recent Events

• March 2020
  New RSoft Photonic Device Tools, Photonic System Tools & PIC Design Suite Version 2020.03 Releases Now Available, OFC Update
  
  
• February 2020
  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø at OFC 2020 and OIDA Workshop, New Application Note, On-Demand Resources, imec PDK

• January 2020
  New Tech Support Email Address, SPIE Photonics West 2020, New Application Note, On-Demand Resources, Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Licensing for Students and Educators

• December 2019
  2019 Releases in Review, On-Demand Resources, Follow Us on Social Media, and Holiday Tech Support
  
  
• November 2019
  OptSim Circuit and OptoDesigner Quick Tip, RSoft Feature Highlight, PDK Updates
   

• September 2019
  RSoft Device Tools, Photonic System Tools and PIC Design Suite Version 2019.09 New Releases
   

• August 2019
  OptoDesigner Quick Tip, RSoft Feature Highlight, AMF PDK Update
  
  
• July 2019
  OptSim Quick Tip, New Photonic ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Webinar Series, PDK Updates, TowerJazz Webinar Highlights
   

• June 2019
  Quick Tip: New GDS File Import/Export Approaches with RSoft CAD, Quick Tip: OptoDesigner, PDK Update
  
  
• May 2019
  PIC Design Suite Layout-Versus-Schematic Quick Tip, RSoft Application, PIC Training Reminder
  
  
• April 2019
  Modeling Probabilistic Constellation Shaping in OptSim, May PIC Training at the University of Rochester
   

• March 2019
  New RSoft & OptoDesigner Releases Now Available, Annual PIC Training
  
  
• February 2019
  Quick Tip: Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensors
  
  
• January 2019
  RSoft Products Version 2018.12 Service Release 1 Now Available
  
  
• December 2018
  RSoft Products Version 2018.12 Now Available, RSoft Tech Support During the Holidays, 2018-2019 Student Optical Design Competition, Upcoming Conferences
  
  
• November 2018
  OptSim, OptSim Circuit and ModeSYS: Modeling Stochastic Variations in Parameters and Performance
  
  
• October 2018
  Enhancement of Four-Wave-Mixing Nonlinear Phenomena by Surface Plasmon Effect
  
  
• September 2018
  Terrestrial Optical Fiber Networks for Long-Haul Data Center Connectivity: Engineering Optimal Spans      
  
• August 2018
  RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite 2018.03 Service Release 1 (2018.03-1) Now Available
  
  
• August 2018
  RSoft Photonic System Design Suite 2018.03 Service Release 1 (2018.03-1) Now Available
  
  
• July 2018
  Quick Tip: Calculating Partial Q Values for Photonic Crystal Slab by using Q-Finder Utility 
  
  
• June 2018
  Using BeamPROP to Simulate a Mode-Evolution-Based Polarization Rotator with High-Index Contrast
  
  
• June 2018
  Using Symbols in the RSoft Component Tools and Viewing the Current Value of an Option or Expression
  
  
• April 2018
  Elastic Connectors in OptSim? Circuit
  
  
• March 2018
  RSoft Photonics Component Design Suite 2018.03 and RSoft Photonic System Design Suite 2018.03 Now Available
  
  
• February 2018
  ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Acquires PhoeniX Software, Custom PDK-Based Model Examples, OFC 2018, PIC International Training
  
  
• February 2018
  Creating Custom PDK Models with the S-Matrix/Custom PDK Generation Utility
   

• December 2017
  RSoft Photonic System Design Suite 2017.09 Service Release 1 (2017.09-1) Now Available
  
  
• November 2017
  RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite 2017.09 Service Release 1 (2017.09-1) Now Available
  

• October 2017
  RSoft Photonic Component & System Design Suite 2017.09 Now Available

• September 2017
  Tapered Laser Utility: Modeling High-Power Lasers
  

• August 2017
  Silicon Photonics for Data Center Switches: Schematic-Driven Simulation and Mask Generation for an AIM PDK-Based 4x4 Benes Switch 
  
  
• July 2017
  Hybrid III-V Silicon Laser (Silicon Evanescent Laser ¨C SEL)
  

• June 2017
  Co-Simulation of Integrated Photonic Devices Using Sentaurus TCAD and RSoft
  

• May 2017
  Tip: Few-Mode-Fiber Design
   

• April 2017
  OptSim Circuit: Simulation of AIM Photonics Transmitter-Receiver and Generation of Masks
   

• March 2017
  RSoft Photonic Component Design Suite 2017.03 and RSoft Photonic System Design Suite 2017.03 Now Available
   

• February 2017
  OFC Info Session: PIC Design Using ²ÝÁñÉçÇø OptSim Circuit and PhoeniX Software OptoDesigner; Quick Tip: Studying the Mode Evolution Within a Spot Size Converter
   

• January 2017
  Quick Tip: How to Use a Data File to Define a Custom Refractive Index Profile in the User Profile Editor
   

• December 2016
  RSoft Tech Support During the Holidays, Upcoming Training and Conferences
   

• November 2016
  Modeling Graphene in the RSoft Software
   

• October 2016

RSoft Component Design Suite 2016.09 Now Available

• October 2016

Measurement of Total Jitter in High-Speed Serial I/O Links from the BER Bath-Tub Curves Using OptSim and ModeSYS
 

• August 2016
  Tip: Defining Patterned Surfaces Using Data Files and Adding Coating Layers
   

• July 2016
  Tip: Using the OptSim Circuit Interface with PhoeniX Software's OptoDesigner 
   

• June 2016
  New Features in the RSoft System Tools Version 2016.06
   

• May 2016
  Performing Multimode Calculations in FemSIM
   

• April 2016
  Modeling of PAM-4 Transmission Over Large-Core Plastic Optical Fiber Using ModeSYS and OptSim DSP Library for MATLAB
   

• March 2016
  RSoft Component Design Suite 2016.03 New Features
   

• February 2016
  Creating a Pulse Train in FullWAVE Using Custom Time Envelopes
   

• January 2016
  In-Band OSNR Measurement in ROADM-Based Networks Using OptSim
   

• December 2015
  New Releases of the RSoft System Tools and Component Design Suite: Software and License File Download Instructions, Key New Features in the RSoft System Tools 2015.12 Release, Key New Features in the RSoft Component Design Suite 2015.06 Service Release 2
   

• November 2015
  Using WinPLOT to Create High-Quality Graphics for Publications and Presentations: Part 2, Contour Plots
   

• October 2015
  Using WinPLOT to Create High-Quality Graphics for Publications and Presentations: Part 1, Line Plots
   

• September 2015
  Traveling Wave Mach-Zehnder Modulator (TW-MZM) Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) Design in OptSim Circuit
   

• August 2015
  Efficient AWG Design with the Effective Index Method
   

• July 2015
  

RSoft Component Design Suite 2015.06 Service Release 1 Now Available

• July 2015

Modeling Large-Core Multimode Fiber-Based Systems in ModeSYS
 

• June 2015
  RSoft Products Release 2015.06 Available Now
   

• May 2015
  OptSim Tip: 3D Plot of Evolution of Optical Pulse in the Fiber
   

• April 2015
  RSoft Component Design Suite 2014.09 Service Release 1 Available Now
   

• March 2015
  Modeling Multipath Interference (MPI) in OptSim Circuit
   

• February 2015
  Getting the Most Out of MOST, Part 2
   

• January 2015
  Creating and Organizing Compound Components in OptSim, OptSim Circuit and ModeSYS
   

• December 2014
  New CAD Circuit Reference and Dynamic Array Features
   

• November 2014
  ModeSYS Simulations ¨C Settings to Improve Speed and Memory Requirements
   

• October 2014
  Importing Custom Refractive Index Data into the RSoft CAD
  
  
• September 2014
  

RSoft Component Design Suite 2014.09 Available Now

• September 2014

RSoft System and Network Tools 2014.09 Available Now

• August 2014
  Getting the Most Out of MOST, Part 1
   

• July 2014
  Impact of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering on Fiber's Effective Loss
   

• June 2014
  Quick Tip: How to enter custom refractive index profiles as an expression in the User Profile editor
   

• May 2014
  Creating and Organizing OptSim and ModeSYS Project Reports
   

• April 2014
  

RSoft MetroWAND 2013.12-2 now available

• April 2014

Techniques for Reducing FDTD Simulation Times in FullWAVE
 

• March 2014
  Modeling Mode Coupling Effects and Analyzing Their Impact on Spatial and Transient Performance of a Multimode Fiber in ModeSYS
  
  
• February 2014
  Computing Bending Modes
   

• January 2014
  Tips on system design using fixed optical output amplifier and fixed optical gain amplifier models in OptSim
  

• December 2013
  Announced the availability of version 2013.12 of the RSoft products, which includes the RSoft Component Design Suite, the RSoft System Tools, and RSoft MetroWAND.
   

• November 2013
  Quick Tip: How to measure effective modal bandwidth of a multimode fiber in ModeSYS
   

• October 2013
  RSoft Component Design Suite 9.0-16 Now Available
  

• April 2013
  New Features in MetroWAND Version 4.0, Issues Resolved in MetroWAND 4.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
  

• December 2012
  RSoft MetroWAND Version 4.0 Now Available, RSoft Component Design Suite Version 9.0 Service Release 12, RSoft System Tools Version 5.3 Service Release 1