Optics & Photonics for HPC
High Performance Computing for Optical System Design and Photonic Device Modeling
Enhance the Speed, Scale, and Precision of Optical Engineering Workflows Using High Performance Computing
Boost Optical System Design and Photonic Device Modeling with HPC Resources Purpose-Built for Compute-Intensive FDTD, FEM, and Multiphysics Simulations.
Corvid HPC provides high-memory CPU and GPU acceleration for demanding optics workflows. From wave propagation and nonlinear effects to thermal lensing and signal fidelity, our scalable infrastructure enables faster simulation cycles, higher model fidelity, and broader parameter exploration—freeing up local machines and streamlining your R&D pipeline.
What is the value of HPC for Optics & Photonics?
Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design
Optical sensing & lidar systems
Laser system modeling
Waveguide & coupler optimization
Display & lighting systems
Multiphysics optical devices
Applications of Optics & Photonics Simulation
Supported Optics & Photonic Tools
Corvid HPC delivers scalable infrastructure for Ansys Lumerical tools—enabling high-fidelity photonic simulations for PIC design, waveguides, modulators, and laser components. Engineers can run broadband FDTD, eigenmode, and system-level optical simulations in parallel to speed up optimization cycles and explore more design variants across wavelength and geometry sweeps.
Accelerate optical system design with Ansys SPEOS software on Corvid HPC—ideal for simulating light propagation in cameras, sensors, and advanced lighting systems. SPEOS benefits from high-memory, multi-core compute to render ray-traced optical models faster and run full-scene analysis for applications like LiDAR perception, AR/VR optics, and automotive headlamp design.
COMSOL Multiphysics (Wave Optics Module)
Run large-scale, multiphysics optical models in COMSOL faster with Corvid HPC. Ideal for simulating lasers, biomedical optics, and thermally sensitive photonic devices, COMSOL's Wave Optics module benefits from HPC by enabling dense mesh resolution and coupled-field analysis without overwhelming local workstations.
Synopsys RSoft Photonic Suite
Accelerate design of photonic crystals, optical sensors, and LiDAR subsystems with RSoft on Corvid HPC. Our platform supports parallel execution of BPM and FDTD solvers, allowing for high-resolution simulations of complex refractive index profiles, beam propagation, and custom material behavior—critical for tuning next-gen optical devices.
PhotonDesign (FIMMWAVE, FIMMPROP, PICWave)
Corvid HPC supports PhotonDesign tools for advanced waveguide and electro-optic component simulation. Engineers can leverage HPC to sweep across dimensions, materials, and drive signals to fine-tune phase matching, dispersion, and insertion loss in high-performance PIC layouts.
MEEP
Scale your open-source optical modeling with MEEP’s FDTD solver on Corvid HPC. Ideal for academic and industrial applications alike, MEEP supports photonic crystal, metamaterial, and nonlinear optics simulation with scalable, parallel workflows—allowing teams to run large 3D models or parametric sweeps across many cores with ease.