SCOPTIQUE is an official distributor of VirtualLab™ Fusion in France, the first and only optical modeling software based on the concept of Field Tracing. VirtualLab™ introduces groundbreaking geometric field tracing technology.
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Developped in 1999 by LightTrans experts, VirtualLab™ is the new generation software. The concept of Field Tracing (as opposed to classical ray tracing software) unites the techniques ranging from geometrical optics to electromagnetic approaches. It enables the simulation of optical systems including diffraction, partial coherence, polarization, interference and vectorialeffects.
Modern optical systems may contain a large variety of optical components as for example refractive, diffractive, hybrid, Fresnel and GRIN lenses, diffusers, beam shapers, diffractive beam splitters, computer generated holograms, phase plates, gratings, elements with free form surfaces and micro lens arrays. In addition light sources with different properties as for example degree of coherence, color and polarization can be used.
An efficient optical modeling requires the simulation of all of these types of components and sources with a high physical accuracy on a single software platform. LightTrans developed the concept of Field Tracing to perform these simulations. Field Tracing unifies optical modeling techniques ranging from geometrical optics to electromagnetic approaches. It enables the simulation of optical systems including diffraction, interference, partial coherence, aberrations, polarization and vectorial effects.
The VirtualLab™ package integrates several toolboxes allowing for the analysis of systems, design of diffractive optical elements, design of beam shapers, analysis of gratings, analysis of laser resonators as well as the shaping and homogenization of LED light.
The VirtualLab™ Starter Toolbox enables you to choose from a wide range of light sources, e. g., mono- and multimode lasers, excimer lasers, LED, VCSEL and thermal sources, and propagate the emitted light through lenses, lens systems, aspherical interfaces, index-modulated components, apertures and stops, gratings and diffractive elements with features from micro meter to meter scale.
The VirtualLab™ Diffractive Optics Toolbox allows to design diffractive optical elements for laser beam splitting, light diffusing and homogenizations as well as laser beam shaping. These elements are also known as computer generated holograms, phase plates or kinoforms. Even non-experts can gain access to the world of diffractive optics with user-friendly session editors.
The VirtualLab™ Grating Toolbox allows the rigorous electromagnetic analysis of 2D gratings, 3D gratings and photonic crystals with features from nanometer to millimeter scale. Diffraction efficiency, near field, polarization and the field inside gratings can be calculated.
The VirtualLab™ Laser Resonator Toolbox allows the analysis of eigenmodes of stable and unstable laser resonators. The analysis includes the calculation of fundamental modes, higher order modes, eigenvalues and power. Index modulations and nonlinear gain of the active medium can be taken into account. Tolerance simulations enable the investigation of the stability of a resonator.
The VirtualLab™ Lighting Toolbox provides field tracing for the analysis and design of illumination systems. The innovative light shaping concept which is based on arrays of gratings, prisms, and mirrors allows the shaping and homogenization of LED light. It enables a fast optimization and analysis taking into account diffraction, interference as well as spatial and temporal partially coherence.
Includes diffraction, interference, and partial coherence effects.
Development of optical components and systems of mask aligners, waver steppers and mask inspection systems.
Design and analysis of mask illumination systems for homogenization of Excimer laser beams by lens arrays and DOE's.
Simulation of lens surface tolerances and Schlieres/reams and their effect on the image quality.
Simulation of mask imaging and mask inspection systems including scattering of light at masks and nano structures.
Laser systems that require micro structured optical elements.
Development of optical systems for shaping and homogenization of LED light.
Development of backlight illuminations of projection systems.
Generation of light patterns and light marks for illumination and measurement applications.
Optimization and analysis of diffractive optical elements for various applications.
Optical simulation of light reflection, absorption and transmission at solar cell surfaces and within layers.