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CODE V 2025.03
The new CODE V 2025.03 release offers improvements that make it simple to model multiple operational environments. Enhancements to Multi-Environment Coupling (MECo) allow you to optimize athermalized lens designs across vast temperature ranges and model designs with more mounting techniques. An expanded Example Model Library, with new and updated examples, facilitates quicker design initiation.
- Multi-Environment Coupling feature allows users to model lens designs based on any mounting technique, including spacer-based, seat-based, edge-mounted, and combinations of these.
- Multi-Environment Coupling also allows athermalized or multi-environment designs to be created in the initial lens set up. Multiple environments can be managed together, integrating environmental analysis throughout the entire design process.
- 3D Viewing (V3D) can be used to visualize the updates to the housing links now available in CODE V 2025.03.
- For additional analysis, such as stray light studies, lens designs can be easily exported to LightTools.
- Hidden Lens Modules (HLMs), which contain encrypted lens design data, can now include an expiration date that can be used to control access to optical analysis data. This feature can restrict HLM functionality to a specified period, such as for a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
- Meta Optic Design has enhanced design capabilities that let users:
- Export designs to Hidden Lens Modules (HLMs).
- Plot metalens transmission versus large-scale diffracted orders.
- Observe and understand the effects of design parameters on diffracted power phase and transmission.
- Visualize variations in meta-atoms across an optical surface.
- The CODE V Example Model Library includes new and updated examples to help users familiarize themselves with the latest features, as well as application examples to jumpstart their own designs.
- Glass catalog file updates for Ohara, Hoya, and CDGM suppliers.
For details about these and many other enhancements in this release, see the CODE V Release Notes on SolvNetPlus.
If you have any questions about features in this release, please contact codev_support@synopsys.com.
LightTools 2025.03
LightTools 2025.03 delivers tools that expand modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities for a wide range of optical design applications.
- Quantum dots are increasingly important in applications that require high luminance and large color gamut, and this release provides more options for specifying the intensity distributions for converted and unconverted light to more precisely model quantum dots.
- For forward simulations, you can specify a Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) mesh for an illuminance analysis to evaluate imaging performance. The LightTools MTF capability enables you to analyze ray data and assess contrast at a given frequency with calculations comparable to the CODE V Geometrical MTF.
- The new luminance camera simplifies setting up and adjusting a pinhole camera with its perspective based on the contents and orientation of the 3D Design view. This means that you can rotate the view or hide or show components in the design view and then easily synchronize the camera with your scene to produce the desired output.
- Automotive head-up displays (HUDs) are used to provide a virtual information display to the driver without diverting from the viewpoint of the roadway.
The new Head-up Display utility helps to set up and analyze systems for this rapidly evolving technology, with support for:- Luminance analysis with backward simulation to ensure the image is bright and uniform
- Ray path analysis for ghost and stray light
- Virtual image rendering and scenery
- Sun loading and eye discomfort analysis
For details about these and many other enhancements in this release, see the LightTools Release Notes on SolvNetPlus.
If you have any questions about features in this release, please contact lighttools_support@synopsys.com.
LucidShape CAA V5 Based 2024.09 SR1
- Provides support for LucidShape CAA V5 Based for CATIA V5 version R35.
- Provides new test tables for the following regulations:
- ECE 148-01 Signal Lamps
- ECE 149-01 Headlamps
- SAE J595 Warning Lamps
- GB 4599-2024
- GB 5920-2024
- New Introduction to VBA Scripting in LucidShape CAA V5 Based tutorial.
This tutorial gives an introduction to the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language and walks you through creating a simple model using VBA scripting.
For details about these and many other enhancements in this release, see the LucidShape CAA V5 Release Notes on SolvNetPlus.
If you have any questions about features in this release, please contact lucidshape_support@synopsys.com.
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Top Consultant Honored as Optica Fellow
Ever wonder what turns a good design into a great one? Dr. John Rogers knows, with over 35 years shaping real-world optics—now an Optica Fellow. A key mind behind CODE V’s standout features, he ensures your design is the best it can be. When getting the design right matters most, John’s here to consult, blending practical insight with design brilliance you can trust. Contact optical engineering services to refine your optics with John.
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Illumination Fundamentals, Theory, and Application
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Newest articles on SolvNetPlus (please log in first):
- CODE V: What are the units of Beam Synthesis Propagation's (BSP) Intensity and Irradiance in CODE V?
- CODE V: Using the beamlet footprint to check beamlet placement and size in Beam Synthesis Propagation (BSP)
- CODE V: How do I use GlassExpert
- CODE V: How to Tolerance Using Asymmetric Tolerances
- CODE V: How can I easily transfer Visualization CAD (CDV) parameters to CAD surface types (CDS)
- RSoft: How to specify LP mode numbers in an optical fiber to track power in RSoft BeamPROP
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Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition
Consider applying for the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Student Travel Grant if you're using Synopsys Optical Solutions software.
This grant, honoring the former president and CEO of Optical Research Associates, supports students presenting at technical conferences. Eligible applicants are undergraduate or graduate students with accepted papers in lens or illumination design. The grant is supported by Optica (formerly OSA).
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