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What\’s New in Zemax 13 LightningTrace™ Design lighting systems in a fraction of the time with real-time modeling of illumination systems. LightningTrace, a patent-pending technology, is a new paradigm in light system design, at 20-500x faster than conventional luminaire prototyping tools and ray tracing. Built specifically for light fixture design, it works with the Visual Optimizer to let you see illumination patterns change in real time as the system is modified! CAD Manager Reads native part and assembly files directly in the Zemax 13 IE environment, eliminating export, import and file translation errors. The ability to dynamically modify files from Creo® Parametric® (Pro/E) is new in Zemax 13 IE, adding to the existing, highly-successful links with SolidWorks and Autodesk® Inventor®...

Lumerical’s 2013b Release a Milestone in Modeling Sophisticated Photonic Components and CircuitsLumerical’s 2013b release contains targeted feature development to better address a wide array of sophisticated passive, nonlinear and active photonic components on their own and assembled within highly functional and complex photonic integrated circuits May 23, 2013 – Vancouver, BC – Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a global provider of photonic design software, announced today its 2013b release which provides significant improvements to all of Lumerical’s products, and includes releases of FDTD Solutions 8.6, MODE Solutions 6.5, INTERCONNECT 3.0 and DEVICE 3.0. This 2013b release will reinforce Lumerical’s status as the most frequently referenced vendor of dedicated photonic design tools by R&D professionals. Release Highlights: Passive and Active Photonic Component Design...

LightTools delivers true design capabilities, accurate analyses, and high-powered product visualization features that will help you get illumination systems to market faster. Explore LightTools’ key features in more detail to find out how it can meet your specific illumination design needs. RAPID MODEL CREATION WITH LIGHTTOOLSLightTools’ robust design features help you quickly and efficiently create and modify your illumination system design, from initial concept phases to subsequent engineering iterations and refinements.Key design features ▼ REACH THE BEST DESIGN SOLUTION FASTER WITH LIGHTTOOLS OPTIMIZATIONLightTools is the first illumination design and analysis software to deliver a fully integrated system optimization tool. The LightTools optimization module improves the performance of virtually any type of illumination system, and gives designers tremendous flexibility to choose...

A technology with a unique approach which enables you to take decisions on material, appearance, mood lighting, perceived quality and lit effects.Visualize in real time exactly how your innovation will look AND from a mobile device to multiple screen systems as well as virtual reality centers.Based on a proven physics core technology developed by OPTIS for more than 20 years coming from SPEOS.It offers you the possibility to drag and drop physically measured materials, colors and light sources coming from OPTIS library and you will fulfill using OMS2.Connect THEIA-RT to OPTIS\’ unique OMS2 point‐and‐scan material scanner offers you unlimited possibilities to capture and create sophisticated, custom material and source libraries.Starting from already defined 3D model, VRXperience has been developed to...

SPEOS is the core technology behind OPTIS’ family of light simulation software and is a stand-alone software package for users without a CAD platform. With twenty years of practical application, SPEOS is the most full featured and realistic tool to create, analyze, and virtually validate innovative lighting systems.Light Modeling This package has been defined to help you industrial designers and optical engineers to better understand the behavior of your lighting systems, and finally to optimize it.Especially recommended for a first approach to optical simulation in CAD CAM world.Non-optics specialists will find it particularly easy to useThis module allows you to create any optical model by applying optical properties to all surfaces, materials and light sources.After defining the optical mockup, you...

DEVICE employs the industry-proven drift-diffusion equations to model steady-state and transient behavior of charge carriers in semiconductor devices. Using advanced finite-element mesh generation algorithms, Lumerical DEVICE is capable of efficiently handling arbitrary geometries, allowing product engineers and research scientists to focus on innovating new integrated optoelectronic design concepts while being confident in the accuracy of the simulation results.. DEVICE provides users with a complete set of tools to design and evaluate semiconductor devices, including integrated process simulation, a comprehensive collection of physical material models, and robust numerical algorithms for device simulation. Coupled with Lumerical’s intuitive CAD layout and powerful scripting language, rapid and accurate development of leading-edge optoelectronics devices is now possible in one seamlessly integrated, highly productive environment. Decreased...

The new FMP framework enables researchers to describe via computer source code a material’s polarization and magnetization as a function of the electromagnetic field and other physical quantities. Release 8.5 is expected to contribute to the development of components in the fields of optical switching, integrated magneto-optical polarization control, quantum communications and silicon photonics owing to the wide array of nonlinear effects available in silicon. Flexible Material Plugin Method Provides Arbitrary Accuracy and Unrestricted Complexity Modular FMPs can be combined with Lumerical’s proprietary Multi-Coefficient Materials (MCMs), providing an extensible design environment for modeling complex nanophotonic systems. With MCMs offering the turn-key ability to generate accurate broadband material models, and the FMP providing an open framework for researchers to add onto...

OptiSystem 11.0 The most comprehensive optical communication design suite for optical system design engineers is now even better with the release of OptiSystem version 11, available in 32-bit and TRUE 64-bit editions. Parallel processing using graphical processing units (GPU). OptiSystem now supports the use of GPU cards to accelerate fiber link simulations. Please refer to the section on GPU Processing in the User Reference Guide. Optiwave Software Tools/OptiSPICE Netlist. A new component, OptiSPICE Netlist, was added to the Optiwave software tools library. The OptiSPICE Netlist component connects OptiSystem projects to optoelectronic circuits designed within OptiSPICE (by using netlist files). OptiSystem/OptiSPICE Co-simulation. OptiSystem now supports the co-simulation of designs with the OptiSPICE optoelectronic circuit simulator. Time domain signals, defined as sampled...

What\’s New in Limcon V3 New Connections Hollow structural section connections. 4-bolt and 8-bolt moment end plate connections for RHS/SHS. AISC flush and extended multiple row moment end plate connections. Bolt goup and weld group. Other New Features Options for checking to AISC LRFD and BS 5950*. Additional libraries, bolt sizes, and grades. Section library management / section input. Display of section and member mark in virtual reality view. Optional elastic/plastic analysis for splices and moment connections. Additions to Existing Connections Axial loads in WSP, FEP, and ACLT connections. Column shear in haunched moment end plate connection. Option for 4 lines of bolts in splice plates and moment end plates. More than 2 columns of bolts in web splice plates....

OPTIS, a leading software editor for the scientific simulation of light and human vision in a virtual reality environment, has announced that SPEOS for CREO® Parametric* design software now integrates with PTC® Windchill PDMLink®. The development gives designers new advanced globally collaborative powers by facilitating visualisation and modification of projects in real time. This represents a significant breakthrough for the integration of optical simulation in the industrial process, making it possible to share complex product data across global development teams. Windchill PDMLink facilitates collaboration between the various product development functions, as well as being an advanced tool for configuration and change management. Users will be able to make maximum re-use of existing designs, freeing up time for making the frequent...