Getting Started with Luceda AWG Designer

The goal of this tutorial is to teach you how to use Luceda AWG Designer to design an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) demultiplexer. For demonstration purposes, we use parameters for IEEE 400Gb Ethernet [1] standard 400GBase-LR8 [2].

In this tutorial, you will learn:

• How to control the basic physical properties and models required for designing and implementing an AWG

• How to derive implementation parameters from high-level specifications

• How to implement and simulate the AWG, resulting in a finalized layout for tape-out and model for circuit simulation

• How to analyze the simulated performance of the AWG and relate it to commonly accepted specs such as insertion loss, or cross-talk

Contents

• Introduction
• AWG generation: Subcomponents
• AWG generation: Synthesis
• AWG generation: implementation
• AWG simulation and analysis
• AWG finalization

Further learning

Once you have finished this tutorial, you can check out the following application examples:

• Organizing your AWG design project which explains how to organize your AWG Design project in a well organized structure

• AWG demultiplexer on the AMF PDK which implements an AWG for the same application on AMF

• Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) for integrated optical coherence tomography which implements an AWG for optical coherence tomography (OCT) on Ligentec

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet

[2]

https://www.ieee802.org/3/bs/public/15_05/ghiasi_3bs_01b_0515.pdf