Hi! 👋 We're Jesse and Jelena, and SPINS Photonics is our little attempt to revolutionize photonics 🤓.

We believe we can do this by enabling photonic designers to harness compute at scale, which means a fast, scalable, and free electromagnetic simulation engine -- presenting fdtd-z!

GitHub Sponsorship: Get Support Now

We are committed to keeping fdtd-z

• fast: the fastest photonic simulation engine available, period.
• free: no licensing fees and no license servers -- ever!

but we've also heard from many of you that you want more.

For help with

• installation and setup in the cloud or on premise,
• timely bug fixes,
• new features,
• hands-on training, and more...

we allow for both monthly and one-time sponsorships through GitHub Sponsors.

🦟🪰🕷️ Priority Bug Fixes -- $500 / month

• Your bug reports receive top priority.

💬 Chat Support -- $1000 / month

• Our co-founder, Jesse, joins your company chat room.
• He is typically online 8am-1pm Tues-Thurs.

👨🏻‍💻🧑‍💻 One-hour pair programming -- $200 / hour

• Code together with Jesse!

👨🏻‍💼🎯 One-hour consulting -- $350 / hour

• Leverage our experience with photonic simulation and design problems

💪 One-day training -- $2000 / day

• 1 day workshop to get your team up to speed

Custom device design -- $12,000 (one-time)

• We leverage our simulation and optimization to deliver the design you need for your project