How to Improve and Optimize the Design of Optical Systems
Designing modern optical systems can be a complex and difficult task. There are many factors that come into play, such as materials, space constraints, performance, and many more. Using optical design and analysis software such as TracePro gives scientists, engineers, and designers the ability to work in a virtual environment during the design process.
Models can be created in TracePro or imported from a CAD program, allowing users to build and test a multitude of designs in a short period of time. Working in TracePro accelerates the development process, reduces cost and improves results. In this on-demand webinar, we will look at a few examples of how TracePro can be used to analyze a system and improve its performance.
Featuring TracePro by Lambda available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
On-demand recording length: 23 minutes
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Optical Modeling of Medical and Biomedical Systems Using TracePro
The design of medical and biomedical systems can present unique and challenging obstacles. Factors such as scattering from tissue, high absorption, and low signal levels need to be addressed. Optical design and analysis programs such as TracePro feature tools such as bulk scattering and importance sampling that can help with this. TracePro allows the user to design, optimize, and verify the system in a virtual environment, decreasing development time and cost as well as reducing time to market. Designing with TracePro allows the user to try a large number of variations in a short amount of time and sometimes find solutions that may not have been considered initially. In this webinar we will look at several types of systems in TracePro including pulse oximetry and fluorescence microscopy.
Presenter: Dave Jacobsen, Sr. Application Engineer, Lambda Research Corporation
Featuring TracePro, available through the Altair Partner Alliance
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Designing and Analyzing Automotive Head-up Displays
Contemporary automotive market demand has led to a wealth of new applications requiring strong performance in cost-effective optical systems. Requirements for these systems require modern software capability for both optical design and engineering. This article presents a discussion of optical design and analysis for a quality automotive head-up display (HUD) system using Lambda Research Corporation’s Optics Software for Layout and Optimization (OSLO) and TracePro, available through the Altair Partner Alliance. These products are designed to work in tandem to effectively solve a wide array of problems in optics.
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Optical Analysis and Simulation of Automotive HUD
This presentation from APA Partner, Lambda Research Corporation, details optical analysis and simulation of an automotive head-up display (HUD) system using Optics Software for Layout and Optimization (OSLO) and TracePro.
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Optical Modeling and Virtual Prototyping for Biomedical Systems and Applications
Optical based biomedical systems can span a wide range of applications from wearables, pulse oximeters, absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and many, many others. These systems use light sources of varying types and wavelength ranges, including UV, visible, and infrared.
Optical design and analysis programs such as TracePro, available through the Altair Partner Alliance, allow engineers and designers to design, analyze, and optimize these types of systems in a virtual environment. These allow for easy and efficient modification of the system parameters and helps to speed the design process and reduce development costs.
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Optical Modeling of Automotive LiDAR Systems
The use of LiDAR systems is becoming more popular in automotive applications. Optical analysis software such as TracePro allows engineers and designers to model these systems in a virtual environment and make wise choices before producing physical prototypes. Modeling these systems can be challenging in terms of setting up the source, choosing the appropriate properties, and working with small number of rays that return to the target. In this webinar we will look at modeling LiDAR systems in TracePro including setting up the model, defining the beam, and analyzing the results. We will also look at tools to improve the sampling efficiency of the model to get better results without the need for raytracing very large numbers of rays.
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Tolerancing and its Role in Illumination and Nonsequential Optical Design
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