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Echelle gratings provide a very efficient method for wavelength de-multiplexing (WDM) with a small footprint: they are typically much smaller than arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) and offer simpler layouts.

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Want to learn how to design and optimise Echelle gratings? Our paper on Echelle grating design & optimisation using Epipprop is published in the IEEE Photonics Journal. This paper builds up on our experience of Echelle grating modelling and describes a new single-point stigmatic design for Echelle gratings: the Perfect Chirped Grating (PCG). It also offers a discussion on the Echelle grating design process and introduces a series of rules to improve the performance of any grating. The paper is available and open access. You can also find some results obtained by applying the Perfect Chirped Grating design for silicon photonics in an article that we co-published with CEA-LETI. The article showed excellent agreement of the channel spacing and output wavelength positions between simulation and experiments.

Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1748) originated the idea of dividing a lens surface into concentric rings in order to reduce the weight significantly. In 1821 this idea was adopted by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in the construction of lighthouse lenses.

A two stigmatic point grating with corner mirror total internal facets and a perfectly chirped grating with distributed Bragg reflector facets.

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Photon Design provides in Epipprop the first commercial 3D echelle grating simulation package. Using AWGs? Why not see if an echelle grating would be better!

A wide variety of thin Fresnel lenses are molded in plastic, the width of the rings being only a few thousandths of an inch, for use as field lenses with ground-glass screens in cameras and small projectors to increase the brightness of the outer parts of the screen.

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Arrayed waveguide gratings use a series of parallel waveguides of differing length to create a phase based device where light of different wavelengths are focused to a different position in space. They are widely used for wavelength de-multiplexing (WDM).

in particular for wavelength division multiplexing applications (WDM/DWDM). Epipprop derives from the Greek word επίπεδο or “epipeda” which means layer or plane. Epipprop is a tool for simulating WDM devices that include a wide dielectric layer where a beam of light is confined vertically but is free to expand over large distances laterally – a geometry seen in the star couplers of AWGs and in planar Echelle gratings or planar concave gratings. Epipprop has efficient numerical techniques for modelling such wide layers – much more efficient than traditional techniques like BPM. Epipprop now provides all your WDM/DWDM tools in one box!  Echelle Gratings and Planar Concave Gratings Echelle gratings provide a very efficient method for wavelength de-multiplexing (WDM) with a small footprint: they are typically much smaller than arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) and offer simpler layouts. Photon Design provides in Epipprop the first commercial 3D echelle grating simulation package. Using AWGs? Why not see if an echelle grating would be better! Want to learn how to design and optimise Echelle gratings? Our paper on Echelle grating design & optimisation using Epipprop is published in the IEEE Photonics Journal. This paper builds up on our experience of Echelle grating modelling and describes a new single-point stigmatic design for Echelle gratings: the Perfect Chirped Grating (PCG). It also offers a discussion on the Echelle grating design process and introduces a series of rules to improve the performance of any grating. The paper is available and open access. You can also find some results obtained by applying the Perfect Chirped Grating design for silicon photonics in an article that we co-published with CEA-LETI. The article showed excellent agreement of the channel spacing and output wavelength positions between simulation and experiments. A two stigmatic point grating with corner mirror total internal facets and a perfectly chirped grating with distributed Bragg reflector facets. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings Arrayed waveguide gratings use a series of parallel waveguides of differing length to create a phase based device where light of different wavelengths are focused to a different position in space. They are widely used for wavelength de-multiplexing (WDM). Looking to try designing an AWG? Epipprop provides a quick and easy design experience that allows the layout and ultrafast simulation of an AWG in any material platform. Shown above is the layout of a compact silicon-on-insulator AWG and the simulated results. You can see in the results the overlapping orders at each end of the spectra.   Platforms PC min spec: Win 8/10 x64, 4GB RAM, Intel Haswell, AMD Ryzen2 or later CPU.

A one-piece molded-glass Fresnel lens is convenient for spotlights, floodlights, railroad and traffic signals, and decorative lights in buildings. Cylindrical Fresnel lenses are used in shipboard lanterns to increase visibility.

Fresnel lens, succession of concentric rings, each consisting of an element of a simple lens, assembled in proper relationship on a flat surface to provide a short focal length. The Fresnel lens is used particularly in lighthouses and searchlights to concentrate the light into a relatively narrow beam. It would be almost impossible to make a large lighthouse lens of the usual solid glass-disk type because the thickness and weight would be prohibitive; the lighter Fresnel lens is constructed of elements that are separately ground and polished from suitable glass blanks and assembled to make up the complete lens.

Looking to try designing an AWG? Epipprop provides a quick and easy design experience that allows the layout and ultrafast simulation of an AWG in any material platform.

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Shown above is the layout of a compact silicon-on-insulator AWG and the simulated results. You can see in the results the overlapping orders at each end of the spectra.

Epipprop derives from the Greek word επίπεδο or “epipeda” which means layer or plane. Epipprop is a tool for simulating WDM devices that include a wide dielectric layer where a beam of light is confined vertically but is free to expand over large distances laterally – a geometry seen in the star couplers of AWGs and in planar Echelle gratings or planar concave gratings. Epipprop has efficient numerical techniques for modelling such wide layers – much more efficient than traditional techniques like BPM.