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Comprehensive Optical Design Software

Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design complex optical systems for a wide range of applications with advanced features, including structural and thermal analysis.

Overview

Achieve on-time, on-budget optical design cycles

Discover new ways to turn innovative ideas into products that shape the world. OpticStudio is the standard for optical, illumination, and laser system design in leading companies throughout the optics industry and at universities around the world.

Features

Quick Specs

Revolutionize optical design workflow allowing more time to work efficiently spending more time validating and optimizing your designs. Maximize efficiency and precision with our advanced API integration. Discover how the OpticStudio Enterprise edition can revolutionize your design process to quickly analyze the impacts of structural and thermal loads.

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Industry-leading optical system design

STAR-enabled STOP analysis (Enterprise)

Support and Training

Coupled Field Technology

Intuitive, easy-to-use UI

Robust, powerful ray tracing

Advanced Optimization Algorithms

Crack & Fracture Modeling

Dynamic CAD integrations (Premium)

Documentation and Reporting

Structural Optimization

Fatigue Life Analysis

Licensing

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio License

The Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is a powerful tool for optical engineers and designers to simulate, optimize, and validate their optical designs before physical prototypes are built. It helps save time and resources in the development of optical systems by allowing engineers to iterate and refine designs in a virtual environment. To leverage the Ansys Zemax OpticStudio for multiphysics analysis requires the Ansys Zemax OpticStudio Enterprise license. The Ansys Zemax OpticStudio Enterprise license makes it simple to import structural, thermal, and refractive index data into OpticStudio workflows, yielding critical design insights, significant time savings, and new possibilities for system analysis.

OPTICS

OpticStudio Pro

OpticStudio Premium

OpticStudio Enterprise

Ansys Optics Launcher

Sequential Ray Tracing

Monte Carlo Forward (Non-Sequential) Ray Tracing

Multiple Configuration System Modeling

Number of Parallel Application Instances per License

Polarization, Gradient Index, and Birefringence Ray Tracing

Design Templates and Vendor Lens Catalog

Materials Catalog

Coatings Catalog

Robust Optimization Methods

Sensitivity Tolerancing

Monte Carlo Tolerancing

Ray Aiming

Aspheric Optics

Freeform Optics

Diffractive Optics

Composite Surface

Image Quality Analysis (Geometric and Diffractive)

Gaussian Beams

Ghost Focus Generator

Ray Splitting and Scattering

Importance Sampling

STAR Multiphysics Loading, Fitting, and Visualization tools (FEA, CFD)

STAR Performance Analysis

User-Defined Plugin for Surface, Objects, Sources, and Scatter Profiles

Workflow automation with ZOS-API and Script Automation

Export Full Design or Reduced Order Model (ROM) to Speos

Dynamic and Static Exchange with Lumerical Sub-Wavelength model (LSWM) plugin simulation

Lumerical Plugin for metalens simulation (Static Data Exchange)

Import and Export of STEP, IGES, SAT, STL

Dynamic Link to Creo Parametric and Autodesk Inventor

Capabilities

Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is the solution for designing components and subassemblies within complex, high-precision optical systems. Such systems address a variety of applications across several high-growth industries, from AR/VR to LIDAR, medical imaging to data communications, and more.

Capabilities

Key Features

Ray Tracing
Lens Design
Tolerance Analysis
Optimization
Interoperability
Multiphysics Simulation
User-friendly interface

Ray Tracing

Employs advanced ray tracing algorithms to simulate the behavior of light in optical systems, allowing engineers to analyze and optimize the performance of lenses, mirrors, and other optical components.

Lens Design

Facilitates the design of complex optical systems, including the optimization of lens shapes, materials, and coatings to achieve desired imaging characteristics.

Tolerance Analysis

Engineers can perform tolerance analysis to assess the impact of manufacturing variations on optical system performance, helping to ensure designs are robust and manufacturable.

Optimization

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio includes optimization tools to adjust design parameters automatically to meet specified performance criteria, helping engineers find the best solution for their optical systems.

Interoperability

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio supports interoperability with other engineering tools, allowing seamless integration into the overall product design and development process.

Multiphysics Simulation

Simulate multiple physics phenomena simultaneously, such as thermal effects on optics, providing a more comprehensive understanding of real- world performance.

User-friendly interface

A user-friendly interface with a wide range of tools, wizards, and visualizations to assist engineers in the design and analysis process.