Optics and photonics play a critical role in the development of advanced, innovative products across a variety of applications and industries – from consumer electronics to health care, autonomy to aerospace and defense, and much (much!) more. The Ansys Optics solution suite provides the unique capability of simulating the behavior and propagation of light through optical and optically enabled products from the nano- to the macro- level, allowing for integrated modeling and co-simulation that enables the accurate and robust design of such products. Ansys Optics allows optical products to be visualized before they exist, delivering the ultimate design experience.
Optical Simulation and Design Software
Optical Simulation in a New Light
High Level Features
Let Ansys Optics simulation software drive you to the best solution, no matter what your project or application. The software suite allows you to easily solve complex optics and photonics problems and refine your design for best performance, measured both by precise metrics as well as (when required) visual appearance for perceived quality. Significantly elevate final product quality with true-to-life visual experiences and combine design and engineering processes into a single, connected workflow. Prepare and appraise virtual prototypes of an augmented reality headset, optical sensors on an autonomous vehicle, or a cockpit HMI in a real-time, immersive environment– all with the diversity offered by Ansys Optics.
Optical Simulation and Design Software Products
JULY 2023
Optics
With the 2023 R2 release, Ansys Optics delivers innovation to our industry-leading software tools, addressing our customers' needs for state-of-the-artoptical design and workflow optimization. We're helping customers save time and money while enabling them to bring products to market faster.
For Ansys Optics, 2023 R2 adds the Optics Launcher with self-service trials,which provides our customers with a launch pad for all their Ansys Optics applications.
Webinars
Capabilities
Ansys Optics allows you to accurately and robustly simulate your optical and optically enabled products while also allowing you to visualize future products. Conduct precise analysis, optimization, and tolerancing of your systems to ensure that these systems are designed for manufacture and can be built at scale and brought to market quickly. Leverage physics-based light simulation to understand how your products look under real-world lighting and usage conditions.
Ansys physics-based imaging, illumination and optical design simulation software streamlines the design process to better understand how your product will perform under real-world lighting and usage conditions.
When customers evaluate your products, the overall look and details can make the difference. Simulate light interactions with materials so you can see how your product will appear in real-world conditions, letting you see eye to eye with your customers and making decisions.
Optical sensors are the eyes of any intelligent system. Assess raw signals from camera and lidar systems in their operating environments. Post-process simulated data to optimize sensor layouts on vehicles in dynamic driving conditions.
Use real-time, interactive and immersive environments to experience your prototype in virtual reality on a 1:1 scale.
Simulate, analyze, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs based on precise knowledge of light paths and conditions. Design high-confidence virtual prototypes that you can thoroughly analyze before manufacturing.
Design complex Optical surface, Optical Lens with rectangular, circular or freestyle grid for automotive lighting application, Design LightGuide for thin & homogeneous appearance
Quickly analyze the impacts of structural and thermal loads with our powerful Structural, Thermal Analysis & Results (STAR) technology. Simplify and optimize workflows between finite element analysis (FEA) packages and your OpticStudio optical design.
Get optical designs to market faster at lower costs through easy cross-team collaboration. Convert complete optical designs into CAD on the Creo Parametric platform. Analyze optical performance impacts of mechanical packaging, and easily export CAD drawings to manufacturing.
Streamline optomechanical packaging for your products without losing pace or sacrificing optical performance. Design better products faster with early insights into tolerancing and manufacturability.
"What makes it different from the traditional development style is that we can prepare a concept in a stage where an area around the light has not yet been designed, which leads to cost optimization. For example, Mazda engineers can use simulation to optimize an automobile lighting mount design for mass production, which saves time and money."
Webinars
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Simulation and Designs for Optical Coupling in PICs & Co-packaged Optics
Join us for an in-depth presentation on optical couplingsimulation methodologies, multi-scale simulation workflows, and the design and optimization of chip-to-chip and chip-to-fiber couplers. Led by senior application engineers anda guest speaker from MIT, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and skills to design high-performance and manufacturable optical couplers.
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Using Advanced Optics for Consumer Wellness Product Development
This webinar is tailored to engineers to validate optical systems, focusing on the use case of a smart band. The webinar aims to provide insightsinto how to effectively validate the optical system of a smart band with a heart rate sensor, explicitly addressing the challenges associated with non-standard wearing methods.
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Laser Applications Part 2: Simulation of Laser Propagation on the Mission Environment
Join us to learn how to model laser beam propagation and simulate the structural deformation caused by mechanical stress and thermo-elastic effects using Ansys Zemax OpticStudio.
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Modeling the Human Eye and Designing Presbyopia Correction in Zemax and Speos
Join us as we demonstrate how to model the human eye and design multifocal contact lensesfor Presbyopia correction using the eye model.
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Hidden Costof CAD Time
Join us to learn how Ansys tools model docking missions and simulate the sensor responses for cameras and lidars, leveraging our GPU solvers.
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With Ansys Zemax Choosing the Optimal Fabrication Chain at Minimum Cost for Your Lens is Just One Click Away
PanDao helps identify the optimal fabrication chain at any point during the optical design process. In collaboration with Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, real-time producibility analyses of your optical designs are achievable with one click. In this webinar, we'll discuss how to export lens data to PanDao and showcase how PanDao determines the optimal fabrication chain at the minimum cost.
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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 Solution Overview for Electro-Optic Infrared Systems
Join us to learn how the complete Ansys Optronic solution consolidates all these system aspects virtually: electronic, optical, and mechanical, from design and validation to system integration.
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HUD Workflow Example
As Heads Up Displays (HUDs) become more prevalent in the automotive industry, designers and engineers are interested in simulating and integrating thesesystems with autonomous driving. This workflow explores the advantages of integrating optical tools with other physics solvers in an automated process. The results are a streamlined workflow, realistic simulation, better analytics, andreduced error.
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Ansys 2022 R2: What’s New in Zemax OpticStudio and OpticsBuilder
Join our upcoming webinar as we introduce two new products, Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, and Ansys Zemax OpticsBuilder, to design and simulate an end-to-end optical system. We'll also show the enterprise edition thatincludes STAR (Structural, Thermal, Analysis, and Results) technology to integrate the impacts of structural and thermal loads on optical designsbased on finite element analysis(FEA) data sets.
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Ansys 2023 R1: Ansys Zemax OpticStudio and OpticsBuilder What’s New
Learn about the latest updates for Ansys Zemax OpticStudio and Ansys Zemax OpticsBuilder.This 2023 R1 includes the Composite Surface (CS) property, allowing users to add the sag of one surface to the next surface and the change in optical performance due to surface deformations and rigid body motions.
CASE STUDIES
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