October 2005 - OPTOPRIM and ORA have announced the winner of OPTOPRIM's annual Optical Design Challenge, in which a prize of €4,000 Euro is granted to a French student project that utilizes ORA's CODE V or LightTools software to perform research in some area of optical design. OPTOPRIM, which markets and supports CODE V and LightTools in France, Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland, sponsors this annual award program. ORA optical engineers evaluate each entry. The winning entry was announced at the OPTO show in Paris.

The winning paper, "Optical Design of a HMD Eyepiece," is by Olivier Jacques-Sermet, who is a third-year student at Ecole Supérieure d’Optique (SupOptique), in Orsay, France. Mr. Jacques-Sermet used CODE V to design an HMD (head mounted display) with DOE (diffractive) correction starting from an Erfle eyepiece. 

The combination of an interesting topic, good optical approach, and appropriate application of the advanced features of CODE V resulted in an excellent paper, well deserving of the prize for this year's challenge.

For more information, please visit OPTOPRIM's Web site, www.optoprim.com, or contact them directly by email: info@optoprim.com.

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CODE V image  from the winning 
entry in OPTOPRIM's 2005 
Optical Design Challenge.