Synopsys provides design tools that model all aspects of light propagation. With intelligent, easy-to-use solutions and an expert support team anchored by optical engineers, Synopsys helps organizations deliver superior optics to the market faster.
Synopsys offers many resources for learning our optical design software.The SolvNetPlus Knowledge Base features a collection of searchable technical articles, example files, macros...
Synopsys offers optical scattering measurements services and equipment to give you access to precision light scatter data for faster, more cost-effective optical product development...
The RSoft® Photonic Device Tools are used to design and analyze optical telecommunication devices, optical components used in semiconductor manufacturing, and nano-scale optical...
Synopsys' Optical Solutions Group, formerly Optical Research Associates (ORA®), is a recognized leader in the optics industry as a premier supplier of optical systems design services...
Synopsys' LucidShape products provide a complete set of design, simulation and analysis tools for automotive lighting. With dedicated algorithms tailored for automotive applications...
Integrated photonics technology represents a growing opportunity for designing and manufacturing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for applications in high-speed data communications...
LightTools is a complete optical design and analysis software product featuring virtual prototyping, simulation, optimization, and photorealistic renderings (including source-...
New Capabilities Link Industry-Leading Imaging and Illumination Design Tools for Faster Multi-Domain Optical Simulations MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that the Synopsys OptoCompiler™ solution will enable designers to leverage the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the release of version 2019.09 of its comprehensive Photonic Solutions portfolio...
The most challenging optical designs today need sophisticated and precise non-spherical surface shapes. A new surface formulation specified by G.W. Forbes describes a “freeform...
Body Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems are becoming increasingly important with the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles. Pulsed LiDAR is the most common...
The OptoCompiler is a unified electronic and photonic design platform for photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design, layout implementation, and verification.
For the third straight year, Laser Focus World held its Innovators Awards program, which celebrates the disparate and innovative technologies, products, and systems found in the...
Having grown in capabilities over decades of development, modern optical-design software models, optimizes, and tolerances complex optical systems with ease.
Using an iterative process that begins with simple geometric planes, freeform surfaces combine with flat phase elements to create compact, lightweight, easily aligned optical ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that students from Columbia University, Rose-Hulman...
LightTools 8.7 illumination design software introduces advanced capabilities to help optical designers pinpoint and correct stray light issues early in the design process.
Techniques to reduce the impact of fabrication and assembly tolerances as part of the optimization process result in lower-cost optics for high-volume applications.
As you will read in this Report on the 31st annual Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar, the revenue numbers remain good for lasers and across many photonics markets - but the...
CODE V version 11.0 optical design software includes SpecBuilder and SpecEvaluator tools to help manage design and performance goals for an optical system.
Optical design was among the first computer applications. Today's software is vastly smarter, far more powerful, and has many more applications throughout the laser and optics...
Optical-design programs encompass lens and illuminator design, analysis, and tolerancing, as well as photometrically tailored design and the interface with external computer-aided...
Senior editor John Wallace once again names his top picks for the 20 most interesting photonics technology developments covered by Laser Focus World in 2013.
Optical light sources and the transmission medium are two of the most important elements in modeling a fiber-optic system, each having a significant impact on receiver design ...
![FIGURE 1. Conceptual mapping from a point source to a freeform surface (P) to a set of target points (yn). The surface normals (Pn) are set to send the incident rays to their corresponding target points. The surface is then created using a B-spline surface interpolation [2].](https://img.laserfocusworld.com/files/base/ebm/lfw/image/2016/02/1601lfw_jac_f1.png?auto=format,compress&fit=fill&pad=5&fill-color=white&q=45&h=139&height=139&w=250&width=250 "FIGURE 1. Conceptual mapping from a point source to a freeform surface (P) to a set of target points (yn). The surface normals (Pn) are set to send the incident rays to their corresponding target points. The surface is then created using a B-spline surface interpolation [2].")
