Major speed-up in optics calculations with VirtualLab™ Advanced

Challenging tasks in design and simulation require appropriate computer resources with respect to both, CPU performance and physical memory. VirtualLab™ Advanced provides such an infrastructure based on 64bit technology. VirtualLab™ Advanced can exploit the entire physical memory allowing a much higher spatial resolution of fields within calculations and designs. Technically, resolution and size of numerical arrays are only limited by the physical memory (RAM) of the computer in use. Hence, resolutions of more than 10.000 x 10.000 sampling points do not pose a problem for VirtualLab™ Advanced.

Further VirtualLab™ Advanced exploits multi-core systems. This option allows to utilize multiple processor cores in parallel resulting in a considerable acceleration of design and simulation. The attached illustration shows the decline in processing time with different levels of parallelization when solving a design problem using the Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm. The achieved speedup (larger than 6) is close to the number of cores being used (8 cores of a dual CPU system). VirtualLab™ Advanced requires a 64bit Windows operating system.