Star Photonics Information

Star Photonics® offers software, consultation, technologies (Si-Ge) and services for optical and electro-optical devices in the chip level. We specialize in Integrated Optics and Microelectronics for Silicon Photonics, insulators and 3D printing platforms. The company has proven experience in simulating, fabricating and characterizing common devices such as MZI, filters, modulators, light sources, sensors and other photonics components. Our main technology is monolithically integrated on-chip Si-Ge Laser, LED, Optical Amplifier (SOA) and Photodetector (PD) components at SWIR that drive the generated light directly into the Si bus waveguide without coupling losses and alignment challenges. The technology is newly introduced (Oct. 2026) and is available for clients fabricating prototype chips in Silicon Photonics. Our main software, Doctor Modes™, Lord PICS™ & Circuits King™, can simulate thermo-optical and electro-optical devices from the waveguide level to entire circuit/network level: Doctor Modes™ offers 3D Full-Vector exact solution (Galerkin method) for the supported modes of various waveguides cross-sections such as Slab, Channel, Rib/Strip, Circle, Ellipse and Trapeze. Lord PICS™ provides simulations for common optical and electro-optical circuits such as MZI, Ring and Fabry-Pérot resonators/modulators. Dispersions, Temperature and Voltage effects can be accounted. Various optical couplers (e.g. DC) can be fully analyzed separately. Circuits King™ is an Optical Interconnect simulator. Components such as bus, resonators, light sources and detectors can be integrated in the layout to form large networks required in many applications, e.g., neural network (AI), optical programming and WDM (modulators, switches) arrays. Effects applied via electrodes, e.g. Thermo-Optical, Electro-Optical and phase-changing, are supported as well. In Addition to linear integrated optics, we also specialized in nonlinear optics: FWM, QPM, TPA, FCA and resonances cavities.