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LightTools 2024.03 illumination design software delivers features ranging from global system optimization to sequence ray tracing — an innovative simulation mode for faster analysis of stray...

The CODE V 2024.03 release offers improved design workflow, faster image simulation, and enhanced learning capabilities. New features like Multi-Environment Coupling, an expanded Example Model...

The LumiSun-50™ from Innovations in Optics is a benchtop LED solar simulator for research applications such as PV cell testing and material degradation studies. The simulator uses...

Greenlight Optics develops, prototypes, and manufactures custom polymer optics and optical assemblies. With in-house optical and mechanical design, diamond turning, injection molding, CNC machining,...

Smart Vision Lights has named Steve VanderZwaag, currently vice president of engineering, to succeed Dave Spaulding as president and CEO. Spaulding will retire at the end of 2024, with VanderZwaag...

A new flow cytometry system could help scientists develop more targeted, personalized strategies for treating cancer by enabling them to follow disease progression and therapeutic response in...

A wearable optical device that records activity in the autonomic nervous system could provide medical professionals with a tool for detecting early signs of physical stress. The device is based...

Hamamatsu Photonics started construction on a factory at its Shingai site in Japan. The new site will serve to increase overall construction capacity in the post-processing (dicing, assembly, and...

Illumination design has developed rapidly to include not only automotive headlamps and street lamps, but also backlit displays, fluorescent panel lighting, light-emitting diode or laser sources, and...

Optical design software allows the user to develop a configuration of optical elements that manipulate the trajectory of light for the purposes of creating an image, illuminating a target, coupling...

Electrical engineers are very familiar with the effects of shot noise, thermal noise, flicker noise and crosstalk, and recognize how these effects can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in their...

The market for flat panel displays (FPDs) has undergone tremendous growth, driven mostly by increased demand for televisions, cell phones, computers, digital cameras and MP3 players. Similarly,...

Answering some common questions new users of optical design and analysis software have are “How accurate are the results?” or “Can I trust the results I get?” and discussing the importance of...

Wideband or narrowband filters from the VIS to MWIR.

Specifications for illumination systems for biomedical imaging and industrial metrology generally converge on spectral, spatial and temporal light output characteristics. This article describes some...

In this white paper, Dr. Iain Johnson, Lumencor’s Director of Technical Support, tests Lumencor’s laser-based CELESTA Light Engine for consistency, power, and stability using continuous wave...

Designing micro-imaging systems commonly used in robotic surgery and precision small-scale imaging used in the defense, industrial, and commercial industries requires calculation of the modulation...

The use of lightguides with diffraction gratings has become of great interest in the development of augmented reality and mixed reality glasses. The propagation of light through such lightguides...

Physical optics calculation software typically provides a single solving program for Maxwell’s equations. Field solvers such as finite difference time domain (FDTD) or the finite element method...

Machine vision camera systems are essential for enabling automation and maintaining quality control across various industries to ensure that processes are efficient, consistent, and meet accuracy and...

Optical design software refers to specialized computer programs used by optical engineers, physicists, and designers to simulate, model, analyze, and optimize the performance of optical systems and...

Ray tracing is a rendering technique used in computer graphics to simulate the way light interacts with objects in a scene. It involves tracing the path of rays of light as they travel through a...

The linear relationship between input and output optical fields for a given optical system or application that allows the use of a matrix and matrix algebra to define an optical system, or series of...

A method of graphical ray tracing through a boundary surface dividing two media of differing indices of refraction.

The physical optics software VirtualLab Fusion propagates electromagnetic fields through the optical system to the detectors. The fields provide all information about light. Thus, detectors can...

Say goodbye to the limitations of manual patch clamp and outdated electrophysiological investigations. With the emergence of automated patch clamping (APC) nearly two decades ago, higher throughput...

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Optical design software refers to specialized computer programs used by optical engineers, physicists, and designers to simulate, model, analyze, and optimize the performance of optical systems and...

We develop and offer fast physical-optics software for optical systems which comprise macro-, micro-, and nano-structured components. By connecting a variety of propagation techniques, LightTrans...

FOCtek provides customers with all types of custom manufactured lenses, Precision Optical Components, Polarizing Optics, Prisms, Filters, Coatings, Optical Systems, Crystals, Nonlinear Crystals,...

Lambda sets itself apart as single-source solution for optical and illumination design. Products include: TracePro optomechanical software known for its ease of use, CAD interface and accuracy in...

OHARA manufactures more than 130 environmentally safe optical glass types, free of both lead and arsenic. More than 300 tons of optical glass are melted per month, available in the following forms of...