Flexible System-Level Characterization of Photonic Integrated Circuits in OptiSystem

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are the key technology for reducing the footprint, energy consumption and lower costs of optoelectronic modules. Characterizing these PICs is necessary not only at the chip level but also at the system level. OptiSystem software plays a key role enabling designers to evaluate their PIC designs. Integrating IPKISS software with OptiSystem supports a full optical communication system characterization of PICs. An automated characterization of a cross-connect switch and a ring resonator demultiplexer PICs conducted in OptiSystem.