Simphony: A Simulator for Photonic circuits

Simphony, a simulator for photonic circuits, is a fundamental package for designing and simulating photonic integrated circuits with Python.

Key Features:

• Free and open-source software provided under the MIT License
• Completely scriptable using Python 3.
• Cross-platform: runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
• Subnetwork growth routines
• A simple, extensible framework for defining photonic component compact models.
• A SPICE-like method for defining photonic circuits.
• Complex simulation capabilities.
• Included model libraries from SiEPIC and SiPANN.

Developed by CamachoLab at Brigham Young University.

Installation

Simphony can be installed via pip using Python 3:

python3 -m pip install simphony

Please note that Python 2 is not supported. With the official deprecation of Python 2 (January 1, 2020), no future compatability is planned.

Documentation

The documentation is hosted online.

Changelogs can be found in docs/changelog/. There is a changelog file for each released version of the software.