Photonics West 2026

We’re honored to see PlanOpSim Lieven Penninck Jonas Vandewalle featured in Optics & Photonics News! 🎉 The article, metaoptics Comes of Age, highlights the growing impact of metasurfaces and the role our simulation and design tools play in pushing this field forward.

1’000’000’000 meta atoms 🔬 Designing Large-Area Optical Metasurfaces: A Scaling Challenge 🔬 Metasurfaces have unlocked new possibilities in optics, enabling ultrathin lenses, holograms, and beam shaping. But when it comes to large-area design, things get tricky

PlanOpSim has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 SPIE Prism Awards, and we couldn’t be more thrilled about this remarkable achievement. For the second year in a row!

For any technology to breakthrough and wide adaptation you need scalable, stable, and high quality production you need a PDK. PlanOpSim releases the first public PDK that is compatible with the manufacturer’s process to gain scalability, reliability and manufacturability.

PlanOpSim and Valley Optics have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate high-fidelity meta-optics design with advanced system-level optical modeling. The partnership introduces a dedicated DLL driver that enables seamless data transfer between PlanOpSim’s MetaComponent software and the Valley Optics platform, allowing engineers to incorporate detailed metasurface models directly into hybrid optical system simulations.

PlanOpSim announces a planned expansion of its successful PDK program with leading metaoptics manufacturer Moxtek with with three new Moxtek PDKs.

PlanOpSim is turning lab curiosities like metalenses into practical tech for devices, vehicles, and sensors. This Belgian startup is developing advanced computer-aided design (CAD) tools to make metasurface innovation scalable and manufacturable.