Photon Engineering LLC

Photon Engineering LLC is a consulting and software development firm based in Tucson, AZ specializing in all phases of optical engineering including design, analysis, and implementation.

Photon Engineering has worked with hundreds of clients worldwide on projects including LCD projectors, head mounted displays, space satellite systems, laser systems, solar concentrators, tactical optics, astronomical optics, light guides and other illumination systems, medical optics devices, and automotive lighting. “If the project has anything to do with light, we’ve probably done it!”

FRED SOFTWARE
Recognized as the expert in the development and application of optical engineering software for solving complex, “real world” optical problems, Photon Engineering has developed the FRED Optical Engineering Software to be the essential tool you need to take your project from a creative concept to a working prototype rapidly and confidently.

The FRED Optical Engineering Software is capable of simulating the propagation of light through any optomechanical system by raytracing. Whether the design is imported from CAD, a lens design program, or constructed from within the software itself, FRED provides engineers with the essential tool for virtual prototyping optical systems. The generality to which optical properties can be assigned to objects in the system model means that FRED is not restricted to any one class of problems. Its capability to propagate both incoherent and coherent light means that FRED can be used for a diverse range of applications that include stray light, laser applications, illumination and non-imaging optics, imaging systems, multiwavelength systems, and thermal imaging.