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LightTools 7.3 delivers a variety of new illumination design features in areas such as application-specific design, color quality analysis, LED phosphor modeling, and design management and performance that will help designers work more efficiently, save product development costs and deliver high-performance lighting systems. Following are some of the key new features in this release.Street Lighting Utility Tailored for roadway lighting designers, this utility provides fast calculations of street illuminance and luminance levels for standard observer positions for fixtures designed in LightTools or defined in IES files. Supports automatic design optimization to meet industry standards, including surround ratio and average luminance. Enhanced Color Analysis LightTools now supports two additional metrics for evaluating a light source’s color rendering performance: Color Quality Scale...

The latest version of FRED, v11.40, was officially released on April 4th and is now available for download. Last week, Photon Engineering hosted a webinar discussing new features which have been added to FRED over the past few releases. Additionally, a sneak peak at some development items was given. If you were unable to attend one of the webinar sessions, please feel free to watch the webinar recording below. The chart slides are also provided in the attached PDF.Optomechanical Design and Analysis STEP and IGES files can be imported and exported for integration of mechanical and optical designs. FRED can import and export system models as IGES or STEP files for full integration of mechanics and optics. Once imported, the...

CODE V 10.4 delivers enhancements to its Beam Synthesis Propagation (BSP) tool that enable optical designers to model and analyze diffraction effects in an optical system with increased flexibility, speed and accuracy. In addition, the Glass Expert tool is now fully integrated into CODE V. This makes glass selection easier and faster. Request a Quote BSP General Complex Field Input CODE V 10.4 adds support for general complex field input to BSP. This gives users flexibility to customize the input beam (light source) description by providing detailed maps of the beam’s intensity and phase. For example, complex optical field data can be imported from external software programs that model waveguides for photonic devices. This feature also allows the definition and...

FDTD 7.5 provides a simple way to run multiple simulations at the same time. For example, suppose you have 30 simulations from an optimization or parameter sweep task. In the past, each of the 30 simulations would run consecutively on the local computer. (It was also possible for the user to manually distribute the jobs in some othermanner.) With FDTD 7.5, the jobs can be automatically sent to several computers in yourlocal network. If there are three computers in the network, FDTD can run three concurrentsimulations (one on each computer), reducing the time to complete the sweep by a factorof 3. Extra FDTD simulation engine licenses will be required to run additional simultaneoussimulations.Movie monitors in parallel simulationsMovie monitors now work...

Solid Modeling Models are created by importing lens design or Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) files or by directly creating the solid geometry in TracePro. Users can define, position, move, rotate, scale, sweep, and revolve objects and surfaces via the user friendly 3-D CAD interface and with special tools to insert optical elements such as lens elements, Fresnel lenses, tubes (lens barrels) and baffles. The 3-D model can be zoomed, panned, rotated and rendered.Material and Surface Properties Material and surface properties are applied to object and surfaces in the solid model. Types of properties include: Material Refraction Fresnel reflections Bulk absorption Bulk scatter Gradient index Birefringence Surface Reflection Coatings Thin film stacks Scatter Surface absorption Gratings Temperature and Temperature Distribution Polarization...

OPTIS has been a Dassault Systèmes Software Partner since 2002 providing light and vision simulation capabilities fully based on a physical model to CATIA V5 users.Integration in CATIA V5 gives users of OPTIS solutions a :Highly user friendly interfaceAdvanced light and optical simulation directly integrated in their overall product design process.Physically correct computer-generated images suitable for decision makingTime savings of up to 80%Reduced need for physical prototypesThe advanced functionalites needed to take their innovations furtherDirect import of material appearance into their simulationErgonomics studies taking into account human visual perceptionvisualisation of light, color and material effects in a 3D immersive environmentOPTIS has benefited from the partnership in the following ways:– development of the automotive and aeronautic sectors– access to DS\’ international...

Zemax 12 is ideal for all types of optical systems, such as lenses, telescopes, fiber optics and many other optical technology applications. The feature-rich set of tools addresses the toughest challenges; such as tilting and decentering objects; creating subsystems out of larger systems, simulating manufacturing tolerances and assembly procedures, and much more. Zemax is now the most powerful, flexible and widely used optical system design software in the world. Its wide range of features allows you to tackle almost any optical design challenge. This latest release includes numerous breakthrough features: Lens Design Microscope Design Telescope DesignProduct:ZEMAX EE 2011 Lanaguage:english Platform:WIN32&WIN64 Size:158 MB

OPTIS has integrated its 3D Textures package into OptisWorks, which is the SolidWorks add-in version of Optis’s SPEOS software. Previously 3D Textures was available as a module within the stand-alone OPTIS software, SPEOS. But its redevelopment as a SolidWorks add-in module – with improved performance –means engineering designers can now model complex integrated mechanical and optical engineering tasks within SolidWorks. With 3D Textures For OptisWorks a designer can easily create tens of millions of modeled points on optical surfaces. 3D Textures for OptisWorks includes the following capabilities: Number of possible modeled patterns in the millions Reduced memory required for the simulation (about 150 MB needed for 1 million patterns) Rapid loading time (2 seconds for 1 million patterns) Fast simulation...

OPTIS edits a range of software for the scientific simulation of light and human vision within a Virtual Reality Environment. Its solutions allow designers, ergonomists and engineers to simulate and optimize lighting performance, colors, optical effects, product lit appearance as well as the visibility and legibility of information on Human Machine Interfaces, in a fully-immersive CAD environment. OPTIS is the only software editor of its kind to offer such a complete solution from optical design, to photometric optimization through to product visualisation all within one software, making it a truly corporate-wide solution.[ SPEOS – Standalone ] : SPEOS is a optical 3D software program, that is applied laws of physics and monte carlo`s theory. It is possible to be aware...

ASAP® is powered by the ASAP non-sequential ray-tracing engine — known throughout the optics industry for its accuracy and efficiency. Rays can encounter surfaces in any order and any number of times, with automatic ray splitting. Optimized for speed, ASAP will trace millions of rays in minutes. Use ASAP to model complex imaging systems, illumination systems, and light-concentrating devices. Create highly accurate source models using source images, point sources, ray grids, and fans. Model incandescent bulbs, LEDs, CCFLs, and HID arc lamps, or import from the BRO Light Source Library. Perform the analyses necessary to validate your designs without experimental prototyping. Customers in need of CAD software solutions may also purchase a license of SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to complement...