Ansys Zemax OpticStudio
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See how Optotune used simulation to help advance the Intelligent Total Body Scanner for early detection of Melanoma (iToBoS) project.

See how Ansys Zemax OpticStudio delivers enhanced support for incorporating metalenses and DOEs into macroscopic optical modeling more easily.

You can characterize the resolution of a diffraction-limited imaging system, such as a microscope, in many different ways. In Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, you can use the point spread function (PSF) for this purpose.

The Henyey-Greenstein model describes the angular distribution of light scattered by small particles. This model has been applied to numerous situations, ranging from the scattering of light by biological tissue to scattering by interstellar dust clouds.

Renewable energy sources are expected to play a critical role in the global effort to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and solar power is chief among those alternatives, largely because it’s inexpensive to implement and can generate electricity in any climate.

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a low-cost, non-invasive optical technology that takes physiological measurements on the surface of the skin. It is the most commonly used measurement of heart rate for heart rate trackers. P

In the aerospace industry, CubeSats have emerged as a low-cost, easily manufacturable solution for space-based optical systems. This blog series introduces how Ansys Zemax software can be used to take a CubeSat from an initial optical design to an opto-mechanical package ready for structural-thermal-optical-performance (STOP) analysis.

Innovation is essential for competitiveness, and many optical design teams are pushing the boundaries of innovation to produce ever-increasing capabilities that meet market demands across multiple industries. Let's explore how Ansys Zemax OpticStudio and Ansys Lumerical work together to enable end-to-end simulation of a complex optical design

Diffraction gratings aren’t new in the optics space. They are used in countless traditional optical systems, such as spectrometers, monochromators, and many other instruments.

Previous blogs in this series have focused on diffractive optics as a method of meeting miniaturization requirements for modern optical system applications. Today, let's take a look at flash lidar, a subset of lidar technology that's gaining popularity for its unique capabilities — particularly in consumer electronics.

The current augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market encompasses a wide range of trends. Designers and companies strive to find nontraditional solutions to meet the ever-evolving demands of mainstream consumers.

See how Nordson saved a week of simulation time and will save another week for each new sensor.

With the solution we built using the ZOS-API in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio, optical design teams and researchers can now ‘try out’ thousands of doublet combinations in just a few seconds per combination, and then only buy the ones that they know will deliver the best performance — there’s no need to resort to guesswork or spending time on laborious manual modelling of different lens pairs to find what works

The winding settings within Ansys Maxwell’s 3D transient T-Omega solver are widely known. This application note will focus on an unusual winding setup, where different windings share the same conduction path, and will offer tips and tricks needed to achieve meaningful results.

OpticStudio made it possible for me to achieve meaningful, effective results in my HPLM test bed project by handling all of the simulations and calculations. It gave me shortcuts, so I could focus on managing the scope of the experiments and achieve the best results

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio played an essential role in helping us prove the capabilities of a highly practical new waveguide system, and to design a model that is ready to implement for a variety of manufacturing scenarios.

I’m quite sure we wouldn’t have achieved ablation without the optimizations we performed in OpticStudio. We wouldn’t have generated any meaningful data.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jorge de Jesus Alvarado-Martinez, a doctoral candidate at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica, y Electrónica (INAOE) studying optical instrumentation and metrology, and some of his colleagues grew interested in the ways thermal imaging could be adapted to help with syndromic surveillance, which is the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purposes of reducing exposure to infectious diseases.

Experimentation in bulk laser processing — the cutting, drilling, engraving, or other structural modification of dense material using high-powered, high-f requency pulse duration “ultrafast” lasers — is the focus of recent experiments at two schools within the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Jena, Germany: The Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) and the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP).