Photonics Python Packages

femwell

FEM mode solver for photonic waveguides

45K 169 44

pmcxcl

Monte Carlo eXtreme for OpenCL (MCXCL)

20K 47 33

fdtd

A 3D electromagnetic FDTD simulator written in Python with optional GPU support

10K 701 147

generaltmm

General 4×4 transfer-matrix method (TMM) for optical simulations of isotropic and anisotropic multilayer structures. C++ core with Python bindings.

7K 8 2

librosette

A fast, intelligent, and accessible layout editor

6K 6 1

pmmc

Mesh-based Monte Carlo (MMC)

5K 55 35

slmsuite

Python package for high-performance spatial light modulator (SLM) control and holography. Supports features from aberration-corrected 3D point clouds to automated Fourier-domain calibrations.

4K 160 59

deeptrack

DeepTrack2 is a modular Python library for generating, manipulating, and analyzing image data pipelines for machine learning and experimental imaging.

4K 238 62

maxwellbloch

A Python package for solving the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic vapours.

3K 36 13

photontorch

PhotonTorch: a photonic simulation framework based on the deep learning framework PyTorch.

2K 88 24

prefab

Artificial nanofabrication of integrated photonic circuits

1K 76 11

opics

Open-source frequency domain circuit simulator for photonic integrated circuits.

995 3 1

lightworks

Lightworks is an open-source Python SDK for photonic quantum computing.

963 4 0

inkstone

Efficient electromagnetic solver based on rigorous coupled-wave analysis for 3D and 2D multi-layered structures with in-plane periodicity, such as gratings, photonic-crystal slabs, metasurfaces, surface-emitting lasers, nano-antennas, and more.

904 63 27

analogvnn

A fully modular framework for modeling and optimizing analog/photonic neural networks

894 21 5

beamz

GPU-accelerated electromagnetic FDTD simulations for compact modeling and inverse design / gradient-based optimization of nanophotonic devices with Python.

883 36 6

opticommpy

Optical Communications Algorithms with Python

820 188 59

simpa

The Simulation and Image Processing for Photonics and Acoustics (SIMPA) toolkit.

710 114 24

blaze2d

A Rust-based 2D PWE Maxwell solver architected specifically for massive parameter sweeps. It significantly outperforms MIT's MPB while achieving a similar accuracy.

670 0 0