Klayout simulation issue

[salmon_lemon]

I am trying to replicate Figure A of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01193-1 using KLayout tool.

What step did I miss other than "export netlist" ?

 

[dick_freebird]

You know that klayout is a layout, not a schematics tool, right?

To get a layout to extract as a netlist may be "doable" but require
a lot of groundwork (recognition / extraction rules) to create such
a netlist. And that picture seems to lack a lot of connections that
a functioning SPICE netlist would want (power, inputs, outputs).
The simulation complaint window is one I have not seen (as I
use Xschem for schematics, which is a more appropriate tool when
layout details do not drive simulation - though photonics in the
present day, is not really that). Whether you can, by heroic effort,
make klayout cough up a layout-geometry-driven netlist / models,
I couldn't predict. But I can predict it will be a long hard slog with
a lot of questionable data to turn into formulas for models and
values.

There is no Figure A in the linked article. What you show looks
not much like Figure 1. So that's another thing.

It seems there -is- (contrib) support for photonics layout and in
the linked page for "Klayout" (which seems to be a side branch).
There are sub-links for "how to use" all that "stuff". You may find
very few mentors for this "path less taken" and the actual klayout
forum would probably be a much better place to ask (try with
better material to work from). The SiEpic (?) folks may also have
a useful forum (or failing that, their git page might have some
discussion / feedback you could use).

 

[salmon_lemon]

Thanks for your tips. I will definitely reach out to Klayout and/or SiEpic people/forum/mailing list if they are active and responsive.

Note: I meant Figure 1A

By the way, I had converted the path for sagnac mirror to waveguide by using "W" shortcut keystroke.

Warning: One of the waveguide segments has insufficient length to accommodate the desired bend radius.

Not sure how to get around this above quoted warning though.
Nevertheless, I have updated sagnac mirror waveguide in the latest github commit.

As for the netlist issue, see the following:

No netlist available. Cannot run simulation.
/home/phung/.klayout/salt/siepic_tools/python/SiEPIC/netlist.py:48
/home/phung/.klayout/salt/siepic_tools/python/SiEPIC/netlist.py:38
/home/phung/.klayout/salt/siepic_tools/python/SiEPIC/opics_netlist_sim.py:41
/home/phung/.klayout/salt/siepic_tools/pymacros/Keybindings/Simulation/circuit_simulation OPICS.lym:7