Ansys Speos
Design & Validation of Optical Systems

Simulate visual predictions based on physiological human vision modeling, improve visual perceived quality by optimizing colors, contrasts, harmony, light uniformity and intensity, and take into account ambient lighting conditions, including day and night vision. Speos gives you 3D virtual reality models for a fully immersive experience.

With Speos Live preview’s simulation and rendering capabilities, engineers can design products interactively — further speeding up development.

The optical design optimizer helps you to easily bridge the gap between optics and CAD so you can create any type of optical component, including lighting system lamps, switches, displays and luminaries; then use them directly in your CAD software. Assess the optical performance of your system and benefit from integrated tools for the optimization of your optomechanical system. You can also process tolerance studies to elevate the performance of your systems.  

Use these for a light guide or pillow optics for reflective and refractive parts. Design the best beam sharp cutoff reflector shape and model manufacturing constraints like drafting and milling. Optical part design delivers unique geometrical modelling capabilities so you can automatically create geometries with several dozen construction elements in just one click. The software also allows you to build a surface to collimate light rays that are impossible to create without approximations. Optical part design will increase your productivity and shorten your engineering development time, all while accelerating convergence on style. 

The optical sensor test provides a built-in environment for quickly evaluating the impact of the different design versions on the sensor perception, all at an early design stage. Starting from a digital mock-up—including surrounding geometries, sensor layout, and surrounding targets—physically model lidar, ultrasonic, and camera systems. The data acquired by your sensor system is integrated into the CAD platform and considers characteristics and constraints. Perform complete analyses for different sensor configurations on various scenarios in about 15 minutes without requiring manual operations. Use your results to determine the expected performance of a specific sensor supplier.

The importer makes it possible to import any native Zemax OpticStudio® or any Speos-generated optical system into Speos in the form of a black box. It contains the optical data necessary to perform analyses while protecting the imported system’s intellectual property (IP). The lens importer guarantees a unique continuity throughout the development of imaging systems, and the optical systems’ data can be imported into camera sensors in Ansys VRXPERIENCE for interactive testing and validation.

Ansys LightField helps to facilitate the storage and sharing of pre-computed intermediate simulation results for sub-structures within an optical system. Improve simulation time and allow for black-box sharing between suppliers and their customers for improved performance and IP protection.

The connection between Ansys Speos and Ansys Cloud accelerates optical simulation time to get your results up to 60X faster. The Ansys Cloud connection helps you combine your optical simulations with other Ansys simulation solutions including Ansys Mechanical, Ansys Fluent and Ansys optiSLang to deliver streamlined and comprehensive results.

With GPU Compute, Speos delivers dramatic improvements to simulation performance (140 – 260x faster benchmarks on average) with no loss in accuracy and unprecedented performance to cost ratio.