LightBridge to Offer Photonica Metalens Engine in October 2026
The product targets the handoff between unit-structure analysis and full-lens design, a gap LightBridge says spans multiple tools and custom scripts and burdens metalens development.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
LightBridge Inc. announced Photonica Metalens Engine, a product specialized for metalens design, as the first product of its in-house Photonica design workflow platform. It is scheduled to begin offering in October 2026. The product connects meta-atom phase and transmittance data from Ansys Lumerical to whole-lens layout, performance evaluation in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, and manufacturing data output. An adoption campaign covers Ansys Lumerical, Zemax OpticStudio, and Speos through October 31, 2026.
Metalens design spans several steps that usually live in separate tools: determining the electromagnetic response of meta-atoms, assigning structural dimensions to match a target phase distribution, checking the result as an optical system, and producing manufacturing data. LightBridge says managing design conditions, converting formats, and placing large numbers of structures become burdens in that workflow.
Photonica Metalens Engine is built to connect those steps. It uses a meta-atom response library from Ansys Lumerical's RCWA and FDTD analysis, supports phase-to-shape mapping and large-scale layout generation, evaluates placement with built-in analysis, and passes design data to Zemax OpticStudio for optical system evaluation and optimization.
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