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Imaging Optics
OpticStudio® and OpticsBuilder™ are the tools of choice for scientists and engineers designing imaging optics, such as telescopes, cameras, and sensors for the Mars rover, and two-photon microscopes for neurological imaging. OpticStudio is the leading software used by optical engineers throughout the design phase. OpticsBuilder helps simulate the impact of mechanical designs on optical performance using complete OpticStudio lens design data. Together, these products enable engineering teams to get optical products to market in record time.
Lighting and Illumination
Producing uniform, or smoothly varying, illumination patterns from real light sources is critical in optical systems design. This type of lighting and illumination design is complex, since illumination sources tend to be non-uniform. OpticStudio® includes features that use advanced physics calculations for accurate results, simulation, and modeling. The unique combination of lighting, illumination, and optics features can only be found in OpticStudio.
Lasers and Fibers
In laser and fiber optics designs, the sources are coherent laser beams or the receivers are optical fibers. In some designs, both are the case. OpticStudio® includes powerful tools specifically built for designing, analyzing, and optimizing laser and fiber optics design. Laser and fiber technologies span a vast range of applications, from common household products to laser guidance systems, fluorescence imaging, fiber optic sensors, and laser materials processing.
Imaging Optics
OpticStudio® and OpticsBuilder™ are the tools of choice for scientists and engineers designing imaging optics, such as telescopes, cameras, and sensors for the Mars rover, and two-photon microscopes for neurological imaging. OpticStudio is the leading software used by optical engineers throughout the design phase. OpticsBuilder helps simulate the impact of mechanical designs on optical performance using complete OpticStudio lens design data. Together, these products enable engineering teams to get optical products to market in record time.
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Fascinating facts about imaging optics
According to NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope is “the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide.” NASA used OpticStudio to create the system that will align the telescope’s primary mirror segments i...
Fascinating Facts About Lighting & Illumination
Visible-light LEDs, first introduced in 1962, revolutionized lighting by delivering much higher energy efficiency. A 12W LED has a bulb life of 25,000 hours, compared to a 60W traditional incandescent lightbulb, and uses 72-80 percent less energy (Energy.gov). ...
Fascinating facts about lasers and fibers
Theodore Maiman invented the world’s first laser in 1960. Known as the “ruby” laser, a ruby crystal was formed into a cylinder with a reflecting mirror at one end and a partially reflecting mirror at the other. A flash of white light triggered...
Fascinating facts about imaging optics
The first camera lenses were single-element lenses, which were insufficient for bringing all colors into focus. This led to the invention of the compound achromatic lens by Chester Moore Hall. He used the achromatic lens to build the first refracting telescope ...
Fascinating Facts About Lighting & Illumination
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes. Blue light was the last advancement required to create white LEDs, which enables consumer electronics comp...
Fascinating facts about lasers and fibers
Elias Snitzer, pioneer of the fiber laser, invented the first double-cladded glass fiber while working at Polaroid Corporation. This made modern optical pumping of fiber lasers possible.