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OptiBPM is a comprehensive CAD environment used for the design of complex optical waveguides. Perform guiding, coupling, switching, splitting, multiplexing, and demultiplexing of optical signals in photonic devices.Reliably characterizing the beam facilitates computer-aided design of a variety of integrated and fiber optic guided wave problems. OptiBPM delivers significant new features, such as the ability to define and use anisotropic materials in layout designs and waveguide simulations. OptiBPM can improve design engineers’ productivity, reduce risk, and lower overall costs related to design of waveguide solutions. OptiBPM’s high-value functionality includes powerful integration capabilities with our award-winning optical communication system software, OptiSystem, and with Design Workshop’s dw-2000, a mask layout physical design and verification software. Applications * Design optical splitters, combiners, couplers, multiplexers,...

The latest version of OptiFDTD maximizes the capabilities of 64-bit operating systems, providing: * Access to large amounts of memory not possible with 32-bit operating systems. * Scalability for multicore processors, and multiprocessor motherboards. * Faster overall performance and rendering.New 2D Cauchy Integral mode solverThe 2D mode solver in OptiFDTD 9.0 is now enhanced to find lossy and leaky modes, as well as surface plasmon modes. This mode solver exploits the Cauchy Integral rule – where the number of poles inside a closed path in the complex plane is given from the path integral over the contour. New OptiMODE XS Designer (create projects out of mode solving) OptiFDTD 10.0 introduces a new application enabling users to create complete projects out...

\”FDTD Solutions running on a new Intel Core i7 processor has provided up to a three-fold speed up of our simulations,\” according to Magued Boshra Nasr, Ph.D., a Senior Research Scientist at Boston-based solar cell start-up Lightwave Power, Inc. \”Lightwave Power is focused on commercializing breakthrough improvements to current solar cells in the form of inexpensive nano-patterned thin films that can improve their efficiency. FDTD Solutions allows us to quantify that improvement, and quickly generate results that agree with our experimental measurements.\” The new parameterization capabilities of FDTD Solutions Release 6.5 will help researchers better understand how key parameters impact design performance. \”In our work designing plasmonic light trapping layers for silicon solar cells, we have recently shown that a...

TracePro 7 now supports multi-core processors using multi-threading. This improvement is completely transparent except for a speed increase during ray tracing on multi-core systems. TracePro will use whatever cores are available. Both Win32 and x64 TracePro, and all TracePro Editions, have this feature.The Irradiance Options dialog box has been enhanced with new functionality. New irradiance mapfeatures include the following: ◦New rainbow color palette. The previous rainbow has been renamed to (blue max) to distinguish it from the new rainbow. The new rainbow palette has pure RGB red for the highest flux value, with colors progressing through the rainbow down to violet for lowest flux values.◦New normalizations. The Normalize to emitted flux checkbox has been removed, and now there is a...

Radiant Imaging Radiant Imaging, a provider of imaging systems for colour and light measurement, has released ProSource 8.0 for light source near-field data analysis and ray generation. ProSource 8.0 provides simple, intuitive program navigation, enhanced graphics, and improved ray generation from Radiant Source Model data files. The software is intended for use by light source and lighting system designers and developers, and applies to all light sources including emerging LED applications. ProSource 8.0 provides an intuitive interface to allow the user to view, manipulate, and process Radiant Source Model (RSM) data files simply and quickly. The user interface and graphics allows users to rapidly access and analyse RSM information, resulting in both time savings and deeper understanding of light source...

tructure groups The ability to group structures is one of the main new features in FDTD 6.5. Groups can be moved, rotated and copied as a single object. In addition to simple grouping, it is possible to create parameterized group-objects by adding script code to the group. For example, it is possible to create a Photonic Crystal Array group with a Pitch input parameter. When the Pitch parameter is changed, all objects in the group will automatically move to the appropriate position. For an example of how to create and use a group see the pc micro cavity tutorial in the getting started section. Analysis (monitor) groups The ability to group monitors into Analysis groups is one of the main...

FRED Optimum (FRED) is an advanced optical engineering software program capable of simulating the propagation of light through virtually any optical/mechanical system, download the latest brochure here. FRED has two methods of propagating light, through either standard raytracing or a Gaussian beam decomposition algorithm to propagate coherent optical fields. FRED has been under development for over 10 years and currently contains approximately 470,000 lines of C++ code. (This does not include code that is part of third-party graphics routines and the BASIC compiler). Download the FRED 9.10 technical specifications here. FRED was developed with the following goals in mind: * Make rapid virtual prototyping accessible to engineers with a broad range of experience levels * Use a Dynamic System Tree...

TracePro® Opto-Mechanical Design SoftwareModel. Design. Analyze. The development of optical systems, sources and components involves adherence to various system performance criteria and constraints including spatial and angular light output distribution, uniformity, intensity, and spectral characteristics. Achieving these criteria quickly with a manufacturable and cost effective design requires modeling software that is powerful, easy-to-use and accurate. TracePro, renowned in the scientific community for the accuracy of its simulations, offers engineers and scientists the confidence that the performance of the finished products will concur with the simulated design without costly prototype iterations.TraceProTransparent Lamp with rays traced and CIE plot TracePro is a comprehensive, versatile software tool for modeling the propagation of light in imaging and non-imaging opto-mechanical systems. Models are created by...

ASAP 2009 V2R1 Released We are excited to announce that the ASAP(r) 2009 V2R1 release is now available to users with current Software Maintenance Agreements. The ASAP 2009 V2R1 release adds significant capability to the program well known to the optics industry as the most sophisticated tool available for virtual prototyping of optical systems and devices. New features and enhancements in ASAP 2009 V2R1 include improvements in CAD interoperability, Light Source Library enhancements and additions, improved scatter models, new options for defining media, and dozens of other software repairs and enhancements. ASAP 2009 V2R1 Features and Enhancements Geometry Conditioner – ASAP now allows the geometric prescription from IGES, CATPart, or GTX files to be modeled as exact Bézier patches without...

World-leading light and human vision simulation solutions directly in SolidWorks® 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.The Science of light at your fingertips OPTIS offers you a user friendly, highly intuitive simulation and visualisation tool...