The software platform is made available by means of a free GPLv2-licensed code base, a custom developer license and a custom commercial license.

IPKiss enables a designer to define photonic components, directly simulate them in electromagnetic solvers and integrate them in a circuit on a photomask for fabrication.  IPKiss can be integrated with popular third-party simulators.

IPKiss is a generic and flexible framework which can be customized for use in other domains related to microfluidics, plasmonics, MEMS, etc.

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