Calendar

SPIE Photonics West
Booth 700
January 21-26, 2012
San Francisco, CA
SPIE Photonics West website

Introduction to CODE V
March 19-23, 2012
Pasadena, California
More information

Advanced Topics in CODE V
March 26-30, 2012
Pasadena, California
More information

OPTATEC
May 22-25, 2012
Frankfurt, Germany
OPTATEC website

SPIE Optics and Photonics
August 12-16, 2012
San Diego, CA

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CODE V 10.4 Now Available

We are pleased to announce that CODE V 10.4 is now available for download from the Synopsys SolvNet web site, https://solvnet.synopsys.com. If you have not already registered on SolvNet, you will need to do so in order to download CODE V 10.4 and to obtain your license file. During the registration process, you will need to enter your company’s Site ID. If you do not know your Site ID, please email ora_support@synopsys.com and we will send it to you. For complete details on how to download CODE V and your license file, please refer to the document Obtaining CODE V and LightTools Software and License Keys.

When you register on SolvNet, be sure to subscribe to CODE V Release Alerts. This way you will be automatically notified when the latest download becomes available. When you sign up for CODE V Release Alerts, select Include patch notifications so that you are also notified when service releases are available.

Note: If you have licensed CODE V through one of our international distributors, please contact them directly to obtain instructions for downloading CODE V 10.4 and to obtain your CODE V license file.

New Features in CODE V 10.4

CODE V 10.4 delivers many useful enhancements. Some key new features include:

Beam Synthesis Propagation (BSP) General Complex Field Input CODE V 10.4 adds support for general complex field input to BSP. This gives users flexibility to customize the input beam description by providing detailed maps of the beam’s intensity and phase. For example, complex optical field data can be imported from external software programs that model waveguides for photonic devices. This feature also allows the definition and propagation of higher-order laser modes. View the video
BSP Birefringent Crystal Modeling BSP has been extended to model extraordinary ray propagation through uniaxial, birefringent crystals. This enhances BSP’s ability to accurately model beam propagation through devices that manipulate the polarization of light, including optical telecommunication devices and lithography lenses. View the video
BSP Pre-Analysis Enhancements The BSP pre-analysis feature, which determines recommended sampling, resampling and other BSP analysis settings based on the user’s lens system configuration and required output, is now more robust when used with systems with a Gaussian input field followed by small collimation elements, a common configuration in many optical telecommunication devices.
BSP Multi-Processor Support BSP now takes advantage of parallel processing on multi-core architecture CPUs, enabling designers to obtain BSP analysis results in a fraction of the time needed using a single processor.
Glass Expert Tool The Glass Expert tool is now fully integrated into CODE V. Glass Expert finds the best set of real glasses for a user’s lens design that provides secondary color correction (including the generation of apochromatic systems) while considering factors such as glass transmission, cost, weight and other criteria.

Macro-PLUS Enhancements

• HERMITE_GAUSS Macro for BSP. The new HERMITE_GAUSS macro allows users to model in BSP rectangular symmetry along the propagation axis. This is typically used for laser systems design.
• SDERIV Macro Function. The new SDERIV macro function computes the sag and the first and second derivatives of a surface at any specified point on the surface. It also includes the surface deviations due to a surface interferogram file attached to the surface being queried. This function can be used on any surface type, including user-defined surfaces, and allows users to control surface inflection points, for example, and to optimize for manufacturable aspheres.
• GAUSSBEAM Macro Function Enhancements. The GAUSSBEAM macro function, which traces a "slow" Gaussian beam through an optical system and calculates the beam radius, beam orientation, wavefront radius of curvature and other BEA parameters at a designated surface, has been enhanced. It now computes and provides access to the minimum semi-minor and semi-major axis dimensions and the Z-position relative to a surface where these minima occur, in the presence of general astigmatism. This enhancement is particularly useful for the design of optical telecommunication systems.

For More Information

For more information on these and other enhancements in CODE V 10.4, read the CODE V 10.4 Release Notes.