Cloud Computing Simulation Tools for Nanophotonics at nanoHUB

Here we review our progress in developing simulation tools for nanophotonics, staged at www.nanoHUB.org. Publishing at nanoHUB is a fast and effective way to deliver a scientific application as a cloud computing service; we focus at several practical aspects of this process. Our on-line tools provide electromagnetic and multiphysics simulations of planar, circular and spherical multilayered nanophotonic devices. Updated and totally new tools utilize an original GUI paradigm developed in Matlab with fast GUI integration, power and utility of Matlab syntax and components, integration with the material database, two-parameter sweep and other useful features. In particular, we introduce two new tools – PhotonicsPOS (scattering solutions for a multi-shell spherical particle on a planar multi-layered substrate) and PhotonicsGAIN-0D (simulations of active media described by a four-level atomic system).

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