PRESS–RELEASE for LASER World of PHOTONICS

Optical Simulation and Design with LightTrans VirtualLab™ 5

LightTrans is going to present VirtualLab™ 5 – the new generation of our optical modeling and design software -  at  LASER World of PHOTONICS in Munich from 23 to 26 May 2011. The field tracer VirtualLab™ provides you with suitable modeling and design techniques based on unified optical modeling.

The field tracing software VirtualLab™ enables new technologies for the design of optical systems. Field tracing is based on considering harmonic fields and provides more information than ray tracing about the light in optical simulations. This allows VirtualLab™ to take into account diffraction, interference and polarization effects and aberrations during optimization which generalizes classical methods of optical modeling and design. In particular, VirtualLab™ supports the design of different types of micro-structured elements being used in highly compact optical systems.

VirtualLab™ 5 offers several optimization methods including local and global parametric optimization, the iterative Fourier transform algorithm and a design algorithm for grating cells arrays. These methods enable the design of diffractive beam splitters, diffusers and beam shapers, the design of elements for shaping LED light, the optimization of laser systems, and the design of gratings.

A new member of the VirtualLab™ product family is the Lighting Toolbox which allows the design and simulation of non-paraxial optical systems, for example setups using LED’s or other highly divergent partially coherent sources. Further highlights and innovations include several optimization strategies as parametric methods and the iterative Fourier transform algorithm that support the design of optical systems and components including aspherical lenses, beam shapers, diffusers and gratings. 

Meet us at booth B2.272 in Munich for a personal discussion, and visit us at www.lighttrans.com for application scenarios, tutorials and m