Looking for an escape the heat of summer? We have plenty of events this summer that you can enjoy from a cool location!. 

Featured Event!

AR Waveguide Design & Optimization Based on Dynamic Link Between Zemax OpticStudio & Lumerical RCWA
July 21, 2022
6:00 am & 11:00 am PDT
Webinar
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The market of augmented reality (AR) device has been growing and continue to speed up the process in these years. Among many different types of design, the diffractive waveguide type becomes one of the most important mainstreams in the market. In this webinar, we will introduce a workflow solution to design and optimize the waveguide, which is also called exit pupil expander. In this workflow, the initial 1D or 2D gratings are first designed and analyzed in Lumerical Design Environment. That gratings can be parameterized where the geometry is controlled by a few defined parameters. During the raytracing, OpticStudio automatically calls Lumerical RCWA in the background via an API for solving electric field for the gratings. The parameters in Lumerical are exposed in OpticStudio UI through this API. We will demonstrate how users can change the grating geometry from OpticStudio UI and trigger Lumerical to calculate new data automatically. A simple example of optimization is also demonstrated.

July and August Events/Webinars

Cell Phone Lens: The Fundamentals Behind the Optical System Design
July 28, 2022
6:00 am & 11:00 am PDT
Webinar
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The methods and tools for optical lens design have been evolving for over a hundred years, and today we have modern computing software to assist our lens design process. In particular, the degrees of freedom that plastic lenses provide, coupled with the computational power of today's computers with software have made the optical lens design of plastic optics more advanced than ever before. One example of a complex optical design using plastic optics is the mobile phone lens. The design process of a modern mobile phone lens used in smartphones is our topic for this presentation. We will break down the optical lens design process and identify the characteristics of a typical mobile phone lens. We will investigate various procedures of the lens design process. We start with the concept of a cell phone design, what is important and how to optimize from an optical point of view. Following the optical design, we will investigate the mechanical design particular to cellphone designs, and also add the housing of the cellphone lens, to ready the design for production via optical simulation with mechanical parts. Finally, we will start to consider the thermal and structural effects of the lens to analyze environmental factors. The entire process will be a guide to virtual prototyping of optical lens design so that we can effectively ready our lens design into production quickly and more efficiently.

Ask an Engineer - Live Event
Topic: How to Build a Laser from a Manufacturer's Spec Sheet
July 20, 2022
8:00 am PDT
Community Forum Event
*Registration Opening Soon!

Join us for our monthly “Ask an Engineer” event and get answers to all your questions about how to build a laser from a manufacturer's spec sheet.  

Exploring Careers in the Optics and Photonics Industry
July 28, 2022
10:00 am PDT
**Virtual Industry Event Hosted by SPIE

Join Ansys Director of R&D, Sanjay Gangadhara, for a panel discussion focusing on careers in the optics and photonics industry.

Modeling Flash Lidar in OpticStudio, Part 1: Lidar Component Setup in Sequential Mode
August 4, 2022
6:00 am & 11:00 am PDT
Webinar
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In the consumer electronics space, engineers leverage lidar for several functions, such as facial recognition and 3D mapping. While vastly different embodiments of lidar systems exist, a flash lidar solution generates an array of detectable points across a target scene using solid-state optical elements. This technology enables compact packaging, and it has allowed detailed spatial data acquisition to be more commonplace in consumer products, like smart phones and tablets. In part one of this webinar series, we will explore how to use OpticStudio’s Sequential Mode to setup and characterize the transmitting and receiving modules of a flash lidar system.

Modeling Flash Lidar in OpticStudio, Part 2: Lidar Simulation in Non-Sequential Mode
August 18, 2022
6:00 am & 11:00 am PDT
Webinar
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In the consumer electronics space, engineers leverage lidar for several functions, such as facial recognition and 3D mapping. While vastly different embodiments of lidar systems exist, a flash lidar solution generates an array of detectable points across a target scene using solid-state optical elements. This technology enables compact packaging, and it has allowed detailed spatial data acquisition to be more commonplace in consumer products, like smart phones and tablets. In part two of this webinar series, we will cover the conversion of our sequential starting points from part one and incorporate additional detail into the non-sequential model. We also apply the ZOS-API to generate time-of-flight results with our flash lidar system.

We hope to see you at one of these programs this month and be sure to visit our Upcoming Events Page for new updates.

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