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July 2025
The latest Ansys Zemax OpticStudio release introduces powerful features for imaging, multiphysics, metalens design, and productivity, streamlining optical design workflows with deeper Ansys integration and support for complex, real-world designs.
A new NSC Sequence Selector enhances the navigation and editing of Non-Sequential Component (NSC) paths. Users can now streamline their NSC imaging simulations, improving efficiency when working with complex optical paths or ray-routing scenarios.
Significant performance improvements for metalens design include a new Fast Mode in the Wavefront Technology (WFT) framework and the ability to define custom window sizes. These changes deliver faster simulation times and more user control during nano-optic development, especially for flat lens applications.
Enhanced export capabilities to Ansys Speos streamline optical-mechanical workflows. Designers can now more easily translate complex optical models into Speos for real-world simulation, including system-level illumination, environmental impacts, and human vision analysis.
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is an optical design software tool, used to conceive imaging, illumination, laser systems, and more. OpticStudio’s user-friendly interface combines analysis, optimization and tolerancing tools to design for manufacturability. Extended customization options can tailor OpticStudio to your needs, or automate your work. Integrated Multiphysics workflows streamline the use of structural, thermal or fluid simulation results
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is the solution for designing components and subassemblies within complex, high-precision optical systems. Such systems address a variety of applications across several high-growth industries, from AR/VR to LIDAR, medical imaging to data communications, and more.
The Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is a powerful tool for optical engineers and designers to simulate, optimize, and validate their optical designs before physical prototypes are built. It helps save time and resources in the development of optical systems by allowing engineers to iterate and refine designs in a virtual environment.
To leverage the Ansys Zemax OpticStudio for multiphysics analysis requires the Ansys Zemax OpticStudio Enterprise license. The Ansys Zemax OpticStudio Enterprise license makes it simple to import structural, thermal, and refractive index data into OpticStudio workflows, yielding critical design insights, significant time savings, and new possibilities for system analysis.
| OPTICS | OpticStudio Pro | OpticStudio Premium | OpticStudio Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ansys Optics Launcher | Included | Included | Included |
| Sequential Ray Tracing | Included | Included | Included |
| Monte Carlo Forward (Non-Sequential) Ray Tracing | Included | Included | Included |
| Multiple Configuration System Modeling | Included | Included | Included |
| Number of Parallel Application Instances per License | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| Polarization, Gradient Index, and Birefringence Ray Tracing | Included | Included | Included |
| Design Templates and Vendor Lens Catalog | Included | Included | Included |
| Materials Catalog | Included | Included | Included |
| Coatings Catalog | Included | Included | Included |
| Robust Optimization Methods | Included | Included | Included |
| Sensitivity Tolerancing | Included | Included | Included |
| Monte Carlo Tolerancing | Included | Included | Included |
| Ray Aiming | Included | Included | Included |
| Aspheric Optics | Included | Included | Included |
| Freeform Optics | Included | Included | Included |
| Diffractive Optics | Included | Included | Included |
| Composite Surface | Included | Included | Included |
| Image Quality Analysis (Geometric and Diffractive) | Included | Included | Included |
| Gaussian Beams | Included | Included | Included |
| Physical Optics Propagation | Included | Included | Included |
| Ghost Focus Generator | Included | Included | Included |
| Ray Splitting and Scattering | Included | Included | Included |
| Importance Sampling | Included | Included | Included |
| STAR Multiphysics Loading, Fitting, and Visualization tools (FEA, CFD) | Included | ||
| STAR Performance Analysis | Included | ||
| User-Defined Plugin for Surface, Objects, Sources, and Scatter Profiles | Included | Included | |
| Workflow automation with ZOS-API and Script Automation | Included | Included | Included |
| Export Full Design or Reduced Order Model (ROM) to Speos | Included | Included | Included |
| Dynamic and Static Exchange with Lumerical Sub-Wavelength model (LSWM) plugin simulation | Included | Included | Included |
| Lumerical Plugin for metalens simulation (Static Data Exchange) | Included | Included | |
| Import and Export of STEP, IGES, SAT, STL | Included | Included | Included |
| Dynamic Link to Creo Parametric and Autodesk Inventor | Included | Included |
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