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At Optical Research Associates, we deliver software solutions that enable you to design accurate, easy-to-manufacture optical systems. Here are the latest CODE V and LightTools enhancements, which provide new ways to help you get the right solution quickly and improve your company’s competitive edge.
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2010 Exhibition
San Diego Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Exhibition Hours:
Tuesday 3 August 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Wednesday 4 August 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Thursday 5 August 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Process your free visitor registration online and avoid lines at the event.
Designing with Aspheres Made Easier
The next release of CODE V will include many new features for improved modeling, design, analysis, and tolerancing of non-spherical surfaces. This includes a new AsphereExpert™ tool that saves you time and effort by automatically finding optimal asphere locations in your lens system. Full support for aspheric surfaces based on Forbes polynomials enables superior design optimization and tolerancing.
Maximize system performance with GlassExpert™
Using a unique algorithm developed by ORA Engineering, this tool finds the best set of real glasses to correct secondary color while considering limits of transmission, cost, weight, and other criteria. The result is a practical final set of glasses.
Beam Synthesis Propagation™ (BSP) delivers groundbreaking accuracy and ease of use for beam propagation analysis. Its unprecedented Pre-Analysis feature determines recommended settings needed for accurate results – saving countless hours in setup time.
Solve Complex Tolerancing Problems
CODE V’s tolerancing is so fast and accurate, you can run it in the early stages of a design to avoid wasting time on a system that will be too sensitive to manufacture. You can even include tolerance performance when you optimize the system. New built-in performance metrics provide unlimited flexibility for evaluating system performance and manufacturability. |
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Expanded backward ray tracing for illuminance, intensity, and spatial and angular luminance calculations delivers rapid, high-accuracy simulation results and enables efficient, highly targeted color analysis.
Smart output smoothing eliminates statistical noise and provides fast, accurate graphical output for any illumination analysis, including color.
Declutter and improve productivity with the new user interface.
Maximize your design view and keep it that way! Charts can be placed on their own tabbed view and dialog boxes can be docked together and automatically minimized. Get the most out of your desktop real estate and increase productivity by reducing the amount of time you spend moving windows.
Visualize illuminance in the 3D Design view on any dummy plane surface in order to quickly understand the shape and orientation of the distribution relative to the model geometry.
Specify IES photometry types on any receiver in the model to orient the intensity data. The intensity data and charts better correspond to the labels and bounds that are measured by goniophotometers.
Compute and optimize color differences on any spatial or angular mesh. Specify a color target and the Cartesian distance between the target and any point in the mesh is calculated. Optimize, and as the variations become smaller, the color becomes more uniform at the target.
Create a light source from any geometric object, for unlimited flexibility to model custom sources, such as filaments or compact fluorescent bulbs.
Calculate color rendering index (CRI) on any receiver – ideal for LED and luminaire design. |
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ORA's Engineering Services team provides imaginative, cost-effective solutions across the
entire spectrum of optical design. We have successfully completed
over 4,800 projects for government, commercial, and consumer
products, including breakthrough designs for compact disk player
optics, holographic heads-up displays, and precision illumination
systems. We partner with manufacturers to deliver total
design-to-build optical solutions.
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Optical demonstrations through science fairs
Paper 7783-19 of Conference 7783
Date: Sunday, 01 August 2010
Time: 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Author(s): G. Groot Gregory, Optical Research Associates (United States); David P. Biss, Bodkin Design and Engineering (United States); Barbara A. Darnell, ScinTech (United States) |
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Anamorphic illuminator
Paper 7785-18 of Conference 7785
Date: Monday, 02 August 2010
Time: 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM
Author(s): Simon Magarill, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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Course: Design of Efficient Illumination Systems
Date: Monday, 02 August 2010
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Instructor(s): William J. Cassarly, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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The WISE beamsplitter assembly
Paper 7796-10 of Conference 7796
Date: Monday, 02 August 2010
Time: 3:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Author(s): Roy W. Esplin, Duane Miles, David McLain, Harri Latvakoski, Mark F. Larsen, Space Dynamics Lab. (United States); Mark A. Kahan, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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Assumptions: Often traced to be the root cause of a disaster (in engineering)
Paper 7796-15 of Conference 7796
Date: Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Time: 9:25 AM – 9:50 AM
Author(s): Kevin P. Thompson, Optical Research Associates (United States); Jannick P. Rolland, Univ. of Rochester (United States) |
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An analytic expression for the field dependence of FRINGE zernike polynomial coefficients in rotationally symmetric optical systems
Paper 7790-22 of Conference 7790
Date: Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Time: 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
Author(s): Jannick P. Rolland, Christina R. Dunn, Univ. of Rochester (United States); Kevin P. Thompson, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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The Earliest Days of Automated Optical Design: 1945-1955 and Beyond (Plenary)
Paper 7786-1 of Conference 7786
Paper OP10OIP1-1
Date: Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Author(s): Kevin P. Thompson, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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LED illuminator for a microdisplay projector
Paper 7787-20 of Conference 7787
Date: Thursday, 05 August 2010
Time: 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM
Author(s): Simon Magarill, Optical Research Associates (United States) |
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Don't miss these technical events:
Illumination Technical Event
Date: Monday 2 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Chair: Jake Jacobsen, Optical Research Associates
Solid state devices are revolutionizing the lighting industry. We will be discussing the devices themselves, their applications and impact.
Light refreshments sponsored by Optical Research Associates
Lens Design Technical Event
Date: Tuesday 3 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Marriott Hotel, Marina D
Join us for our yearly gathering of experienced, "recognized" professional lens designers as we meet and discuss...lens design! We will hear about what they're designing, how they're going about doing it (what materials, software, techniques, etc.), and what problems they're encountering. We will also explore current technical and commercial trends in the marketplace.
Light refreshments sponsored by Optical Research Associates
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