Ansys Zemax OpticStudio
Optical Workflow & Design Software
Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing.
Achieve on-time, on-budget optical design cycles
Discover new ways to turn innovative ideas into products that shape the world. OpticStudio is the standard for optical, illumination, and laser system design in leading companies throughout the optics industry and at universities around the world.
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Analyze, optimize, tolerance
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Global userbase
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Leading industry standard
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Built-in STOP analysis available
JULY 2023
What's New
With the 2023 R2 release, Ansys Optics continues to deliver innovation to our industry-leading software tools, addressing our customers' needs for state-of-the-art optical design and workflow optimization. Helping our customers save time and money while enabling them to bring products to market faster.
Project Directory Wizard
This tool allows the user to select the files to copy to the project directory and the ones to load from the Ansys Zemax root folder. The tool provides the ability to include additional project files that contain information about the project.
Optics Launcher and Self-service Trial
The Optics Launcher is installed with all Optics products in 2023 R2 except OpticsBuilder. Launch all your installed applications or request trial licenses for different products. The Application Gallery contains example simulation projects and provides links to let you set your Ansys licenses.
Rigid Body Motion to Coordinate Break Tool
Component RBMs Tool enables customers to insert Coordinate Breaks into the Lens Data Editor based on rigid-body motion with just a few clicks.
FEA Symmetry Tool
FEA Symmetry Tool significantly speeds up the overall STOP workflow in cases where symmetrical assumptions are used for the FEA simulation. FEA datasets can be mirrored or rotated to cover the optical surface completely before loading into OpticStudio.
Quick Specs
Improve your optics workflow to spend more time validating and adding quality to your designs. Automate workflows with our API. With OpticStudio STAR (Enterprise edition only) quickly analyzes the impacts of structural and thermal loads.
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Industry-leading optical system design -
Intuitive, easy-to-use UI -
Phosphor & fluorescence modeling (Premium)
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Robust, powerful ray tracing
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STAR-enabled STOP analysis (Enterprise)
Read an OpticStudio Case Study
“By enhancing its optical design workflow using OpticStudio’s native RCWA algorithm, Vivo boosts productivityto stay innovative and competitive in a fast-moving market.”
Vivo's customers continuously seek new features and improvements that give them the latest and greatest applications for optics technologies. Many of the most impactful recent developments use diffractive optical elements (DOEs), which utilize the wave characteristics of light to achieve new levels of functionality, performance, and miniaturization for camera lenses and augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) equipment.
Designs that include DOE require diffractive optics simulation capabilities beyond those of traditional geometric optics. To achieve these DOE capabilities, Vivo wrote code that implemented the new simulation types needed for testing and tolerancing the DOE-based designs. Vivo remained mindful of the ongoing need to achieve the miniaturization and performance their customers expected. Developing these designs gave Vivo access to valuable new features they could now offer in their cell phone and AR/VR products. Vivo wanted a reliable way of doing this quickly to achieve the time-to-market goals required to maintain a competitive advantage.
Easily Use OpticStudio With Other Ansys Products
Realize the Multiphysics potential of an end-to-end optics portfolio by combining Ansys Zemax OpticStudio with Ansys Lumerical and Ansys Speos. Streamline workflows and communication across photonic, optical, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers.
Microscale component modeling
Optimize the design of photonic components, circuits, and systems at the chip level with waveguides, sensors, and microlenses
Imaging the physical world
Apply ray tracing analysis, optimization, and optical and mechanical tolerancing via API-driven automation to refine optical designs
Simulating human perception
Predict the illumination and optical performance of systems via lighting simulation and integrations into 3D environments
OPTICSTUDIO RESOURCES & EVENTS
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Simulation and Designs for Optical Coupling in PICs & Co-packaged Optics
Join us for an in-depth presentation on optical coupling simulation methodologies, multi-scale simulation workflows, and the design and optimization of chip-to-chip and chip-to-fiber couplers.
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Designing the Future: Optimize Your AR Exit Pupil Expander with a 2D Grating Out-Coupler
Join our optical experts as they showcase how to address the design and analysis challenges of the AR waveguide optical system, leveraging the most effective methods, solvers, and workflows.
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Ansys 2023 R2: Ansys Zemax What’s New
Learn about the latest updates and functionality in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio and OpticsBuilder, including the Optics Launcher, a launch pad for your Ansys Optics applications.
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