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RSoft Component suite 2016RSoft\’s Photonic Component Design Suite RSoft\’s Photonic Component Design Suite allows users to design and simulate both passive and active photonic devices for optical communications, optoelectronics, and semiconductor manufacturing. RSoft currently addresses both passive and active devices through two design suites: a Passive Device Suite and an Active Device Suite. Each suite includes a CAD environment, simulation engines, and an optimization utility.Key Features Highly accurate algorithms allow for rapid virtual prototyping reducing the need for costly and lengthy physical prototyping increasing productivity and decreasing time-to-market. Assists in the discovery of new products by creating \”what if\” product scenarios. Each algorithm engine shares a common CAD interface; the software can utilize multiple RSoft packages without having to import...

LightTools 8.4LightTools 8.4 delivers new modeling, simulation and expert features for all types of illumination system design.Hybrid Simulation Option In addition to forward and backward simulations available in previous releases, LightTools now also provides a hybrid simulation option specifically designed to deliver efficiency improvements for models with predominately scattering surfaces. To benefit from this new feature, models must exhibit specific characteristics. Ray trace efficiency for models that can benefit from a hybrid simulation can be significant. Hybrid simulations are useful for evaluating the illuminance and luminance on diffuse surfaces like luminaire and dashboard panels. LightTools 8.4 – Hybrid Simulatiom Capability for Creating and Managing Configurations This version of LightTools provides a capability for defining configurations, which allows you to create...

Zemax OpticStudio V16 SP1 New features streamline your workflow and support manufacturability OpticStudio 16 improves the manufacturability of optical and illumination designs with new features and added functionality that make the entire design process faster and easier while improving the final results. Easily create lens designs that incorporate all manufacturing aspects, including mounting edges, and chip zones that extend beyond the traditional clear aperture Accurately and easily analyze stray light and scatter for opto-mechanical designs with a single-step conversion tool that includes all aspects of source and detection data Measure light on any object or objects including arbitrary CAD parts with a single check box to optimize illumination of target areas Added mobility for single users with soft-key licensing Expanded...

BREAULT APEX 2015 for Solidworks Available as an add-in to the industry-standard SolidWorks® 3D-modeling environment, and based on BRO\’s ASAP® kernel technology, APEX® has been developed for the design and analysis of optical and illumination systems using an easy-to-follow workflow. APEX delivers optical software tools in a true CAD interface. With the full power and sophistication of SolidWorks in APEX, there is no need to translate, bridge or link between two separate programs. In APEX, you learn, create, design, and analyze in the same program environment, and that environment is all about ease of use. APEX seamlessly melds the worlds of computer-aided design and optical engineering, resulting in an \”optics aware\” design application. In APEX, no CAD restrictions are placed...

BREAULT ASAP 2015ASAP® is the time-proven industry standard in optical software, offering optical-system designers unmatched capability, flexibility, speed, and accuracy. ASAP accurately predicts the real-world performance of automotive lighting, bio-optic systems, coherent systems, displays, imaging systems, lightpipes, luminaires, and medical devices.Capability The product of more than 30 years of continuous development, ASAP is able to simulate the physics of more optical systems than any other program available. ASAP unites geometrical and physical optics with full 3D models of optical and mechanical systems. Built-in graphical tools allow visualization of model geometry, ray-trace details, and results analysis. ASAP handles it all, including scattering, diffraction, reflection, refraction, absorption, polarization, and Gaussian beam propagation.Flexibility ASAP is now interoperable with many CAD programs. ASAP can...

OPTIS OptisWorks 2016OPTIS, software specialist in the scientific simulation of light and human vision, announces the latest version of its lighting simulation and luminaire design solution, OptisWorks 2016. Addressing the needs of engineers and designers in lighting, luminaire and architecture areas, OptisWorks precisely predicts the outcome of complete lighting installations. For lighting specialists, this means saved time and cost throughout the entire luminaire design cycle, from the early concept phase to the production of lighting systems. But OptisWorks even goes further by helping architects develop innovative future buildings thanks to high quality and predictive simulations certified by the CIE 171:2006 standard. OptisWorks from OPTIS is a toolset for optimizing light in any product directly in SOLIDWORKS. This solution lets designers...

LightTools 8.3.2Hybrid Simulation Option In addition to forward and backward simulations available in previous releases, LightTools now also provides a hybrid simulation option specifically designed to deliver efficiency improvements for models with predominately scattering surfaces. To benefit from this new feature, models must exhibit specific characteristics. Ray trace efficiency for models that can benefit from a hybrid simulation can be significant. Hybrid simulations are useful for evaluating the illuminance and luminance on diffuse surfaces like luminaire and dashboard panels. Capability for Creating and Managing Configurations This version of LightTools provides a capability for defining configurations, which allows you to create and store variations of a design in a single model. You can define and manage configurations that include parts with...

Optiwave.OptiFDTD.12.2NEW FEATURE Full 64-bit Software OptiFDTD has been thoroughly re-engineered to take full advantage of recent processor and memory evolution. Every aspect of OptiFDTD now utilizes 64-bit processing technology for optimal performance. NEW FEATURE 3D Editor The new editor improves the design experience by enabling users to visualize and directly edit design objects in three dimensions. Simple mouse operations enable zooming, panning and tumbling within the simulation domain. fdtd 3D photonic crystal t-branchFig 1: The new 3D editor displaying a “T-branch” photonic crystal layout For more precise positioning and better visualization of hidden geometry, the 3D editor can be replaced by a 4-quadrant window showing three orthographic views (XY, XZ, YZ) and a 3D representation of the layout. The Wireframe...

ORA CODE V v10.8CODE V 10.8 supports the design of high-performance asymmetric and freeform optical systems with algorithmic enhancements that yield highly accurate computations of optical system parameters and enable precise control of those parameters during design optimization. In addition, CODE V 10.8 provides customers with extended aspheric lens formulations, new ways to customize workflows, and an expanded materials library. Enhanced Computations for Systems without Symmetry CODE VCODE V 10.8 includes algorithmic enhancements to yield highly accurate first-order computations during ray tracing of asymmetric optical systems, including those with tilted and decentered components and freeform surfaces. The computations are based on a rigorous approach that analyzes the matrix optics behavior of imaging systems, and allows superior control of the optical...

Lumerical 2016a build 736 for Win/Linux/MacLumerical’s 2016a Release Introduces Heat Transport Analysis for Semiconductor and Optical Devices December 2, 2015 – Vancouver, B.C. – Lumerical Solutions, Inc., a global provider of photonic design software, announced the 2016a release of its products FDTD Solutions 8.15, MODE Solutions 7.7, DEVICE 5.0 and INTERCONNECT 5.1. The 2016a release introduces a heat transport solver to DEVICE 5.0 which enhances Lumerical’s current photonic and electrical design tools for the multiphysics analysis of integrated photonics, photovoltaics, image sensing and other optoelectronics applications including thermally tuned waveguides, modulators and switch matrices. The 2016a release also includes: The Broadband Fixed Angle Source Technique (BFAST) in FDTD Solutions. Based on the split-field FDTD method, BFAST makes it possible to...