Photonics Python Packages

femwell

FEM mode solver for photonic waveguides

pmcxcl

Monte Carlo eXtreme for OpenCL (MCXCL)

librosette

A fast, intelligent, and accessible layout editor

pmmc

Mesh-based Monte Carlo (MMC)

generaltmm

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

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.

beamz

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

deeptrack

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

opics

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

micromode

An FDFD electromagnetic mode solver for rasterized waveguide cross sections made to be a standard plugin for FDTD engines.

prefab

Artificial nanofabrication of integrated photonic circuits

photontorch

Highly parallel simulation and optimization of photonic circuits in time and frequency domain based on the deep-learning framework PyTorch

opticommpy

Simulate optical communications systems with Python.

fdtd

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

lightworks

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

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.

atom-optic

optical attention via wave interference in holographic crystals verified to float precision. the math is done. contribute to build the hardware.star it, fork it, break it.

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.

legume-gme

🌱 Guided-mode expansion of photonic crystal slabs

analogvnn

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

blender-optics-mcp

Blender add-on to design, simulate, align & render optical setups — live beam tracing, kinematic-mount auto-alignment, polarization (Jones/Stokes), interference fringes, Gaussian beams, wavelength optics, and a real-vendor component library. Driveable from the UI or a headless optics_api (AI/MCP-friendly).

hyperbolic-optics

4×4 transfer matrix method for simulating light reflection from anisotropic multilayer structures with Mueller matrix analysis

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.

piel

Photonic Integrated Electronics: microservices to codesign photonics, electronics, communications, quantum, and more.