Photonics Python Packages

femwell

FEM mode solver for photonic waveguides

pmcxcl

Monte Carlo eXtreme for OpenCL (MCXCL)

pmmc

Python bindings for Mesh-based Monte Carlo (MMC) photon transport simulator

fdtd

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

librosette

A fast, intelligent, and accessible layout editor

generaltmm

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

deeptrack

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

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.

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.

prefab

Artificial nanofabrication of integrated photonic circuits

lightworks

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

photontorch

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

opics

OPICS : An S-parameter based photonic circuit simulator

piel

Photonic Integrated ELectronics. Microservices to codesign photonics, electronics, quantum, and more.

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.

analogvnn

A fully modular framework for modeling and optimizing analog neural networks

beamz

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

simpa

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

legume-gme

Differentiable plane-wave and guided-mode expansion for photonic crystals

opticommpy

Simulate optical communications systems with Python.

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.

glimy

Computational Electromagnetics Framework

fast-wave

Package for the calculation of the time-independent wavefunction.

gds-fdtd

Minimal Python module to assist setting up FDTD simulation using Tidy3D and Lumerical on planar nanophotonic devices.