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FEATURESIllumination system designs using TracePro are often accomplished in an iterative manner with modifications between steps handled manually or through 2D and 3D optimization based on user-defined criteria: Layout of physical geometry, setting optical properties, specifying location, and orientation Definition of optical sources as grid sources, surface sources or ray filesTracing rays to calculate illumination distributions throughout the systemOptimizationResults analysisReportingSolid ModelingTracePro models are created by importing lens design or CAD files, or by directly creating solid geometry within TracePro. You can modify imported or built geometry using move, rotate, and scale operations for solid objects and sweep and revolve operations for surfaces via the user-friendly, 3D CAD interface. Special tools allow you to insert primitive solids (tubes, blocks, cones, and...

LightTools: What\’s NewLightTools 8.3 delivers new solutions for designing high-performance lighting systems with ease and efficiency. Advanced Design Module The LightTools Advanced Design Module provides a set of specialized tools to enable fast, robust modeling of reflective and refractive freeform optics in both single-surface and segmented configurations for a diverse set of illumination applications. The Advanced Design Module leverages proprietary algorithms from Synopsys’ LucidShape® products that automatically calculate and construct optical geometries based on user-defined illuminance and intensity patterns. This unique, functional approach gives you the freedom to focus on overall design objectives rather than the implementation details of complex optical components. Key features include: Freeform Designer for designing reflective and refractive surfaces that shape the resulting light pattern.MacroFocal Reflector...

Lambda Research Corporation is a single-source solution for optical lighting and illumination design software and hardware. Lambda sells its own TracePro® 3D opto-mechanical software differentiated by its ease-of-use, CAD interface, and accuracy in illumination and lighting design, as well as the TracePro Bridge™, a fully integrated, seamless add-in for SolidWorks®. Product Details:TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks is an Add-In to SW, allowing users to incorporate optical components directly into SW models. The opto-mechanical models are subsequently exported to TracePro, ready for optical ray tracing and analysis. TracePro Bridge enables ability to assign and save TracePro optical properties to the SW model, the capability to view properties of objects and surfaces comprising the model, and direct and efficient transition of models from...

The Future of Photonics Lumerical envisions a future where nanoscale photonic devices are pervasive. Made possible by the continued emergence of low-cost manufacturing techniques able to reliably create high-performance nanoscale devices in large volumes, photonics will be recognized as an enabling technology that intimately impacts many facets of life – through entertainment, medical discovery, communications, information storage, and manufacturing. Organizations increasingly rely on virtual prototyping – assessing performance via rigorous computer-aided design and engineering – to rapidly and cost-effectively investigate new product concepts, optimize designs, and drive innovation.FDTD Solutions is a 3D Maxwell solver, capable of analyzing the interaction of UV, visible, and IR radiation with complicated structures employing wavelength scale features. FDTD Solutions empowers designers to confront the most...

OPTIS is the world-leading software editor for the scientific simulation of light and human vision within a Virtual Reality Environment. Its CAD-integrated solutions allow designers, ergonomists, and engineers to simulate and optimize lighting performance, product appearance, as well as the visibility and legibility of information on Human Machine Interfaces, in a fully immersive environment. Since integrating its solution in SolidWorks in 2001, OPTIS is still the only company to provide a light simulation solution fully based on a physical model inside a CAD/CAM software. OPTIS has delivered more than 6,000 licenses to 1,600 customers in 36 countries worldwide. Users include most of the major automotive, aerospace, electronics, white goods, and lighting manufacturers, as well as architects, universities, research laboratories, and...

SPEOS CAA V5 BasedWorld-leading light and human vision simulation solutions directly in CATIA V5. With twenty years of practical application, SPEOS is the most full featured and realistic tool to create, analyze, and virtually validate innovative lighting systems.Optical Shape Design Optical Shape Design (OSD) completes SPEOS simulation & analysis product line (Light Modeling, Visual Ergonomics & VRXperience) with automatic geometry generation dedicated to optical and lighting system design within CATIA V5. SPEOS OSD provides an intuitive and powerful suite of tools to create lighting components such as reflectors, lenses, light guides… from both mechanical and optical specifications. It complements CATIA V5 geometric workbenches. Being fully integrated into CATIA V5, SPEOS OSD avoids all data transfer tasks and the associated drawbacks...

Lumerical Suite 2015a Linux |1.3 Gb Lumerical Solutions, Inc. a global provider of photonic design software, announced FDTD Solutions 8.11, MODE Solutions 7.5, INTERCONNECT 4.5 and DEVICE 4.5 are now available with Lumerical’s 2015a release. Lumerical’s tools support a broad range of photonic and electromagnetic design and analysis applications. From component level analysis using optical and electrical solvers to system level design and simulation, Lumerical’s products are capable of addressing the most challenging design problems. Photonic component design and analysis features in the 2015a release include: – Usability and performance improvements to the eigenmode expansion (EME) solver in MODE Solutions, including the ability to import and export arbitrary field profiles, estimate calculation errors using advanced error diagnostic tools, and speed-up...

DIFFSYS is a Windows® program for the generation of optical surfaces on precision CNC machines, particularily diamond-turning machines. It was primarily developed for aspheres, diffractives, fresnels and hybrids, and has now expanded in various directions, to include 3D surfaces (non-circularily symmetric), special tool configurations, and also measurement corrections. DIFFSYS outputs jobfiles in several ASCII formats, compatible with most commercial machines. The strengths of DIFFSYS lie in its: Ease of use & clear graphics, Ability to accept design data in many different formats, Comprehensive tool corrections, to ensure accurate machining, Excellent technical support. DIFFSYS was first released in 2000, and has become a market leader, with sales worldwide. It is recognised and recommended by the leading manufacturers of ultra-precision machines.DIFFSYS Purchasing...

Lumerical 2015a release includes enhanced capabilities to streamline the design, analysis and optimization of complex photonic components and circuits. November 19, 2014 – Vancouver, B.C.– Lumerical Solutions, Inc. a global provider of photonic design software, announced FDTD Solutions 8.11, MODE Solutions 7.5, INTERCONNECT 4.5 and DEVICE 4.5 are now available with Lumerical’s 2015a release. Photonic component design and analysis features in the 2015a release include: Usability and performance improvements to the eigenmode expansion (EME) solver in MODE Solutions, including the ability to import and export arbitrary field profiles, estimate calculation errors using advanced error diagnostic tools, and speed-up computation with a fully multi-threaded simulation engine; New stretched coordinate PML absorbing boundary conditions in FDTD Solutions and MODE Solutions, enabling greater...

Lumerical Solutions, Inc. a global provider of photonic design software, announced FDTD Solutions 8.11, MODE Solutions 7.5, INTERCONNECT 4.5 and DEVICE 4.5 are now available with Lumerical’s 2015a release. Lumerical’s tools support a broad range of photonic and electromagnetic design and analysis applications. From component level analysis using optical and electrical solvers to system level design and simulation, Lumerical’s products are capable of addressing the most challenging design problems. Photonic component design and analysis features in the 2015a release include: – Usability and performance improvements to the eigenmode expansion (EME) solver in MODE Solutions, including the ability to import and export arbitrary field profiles, estimate calculation errors using advanced error diagnostic tools, and speed-up computation with a fully multi-threaded simulation...