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Optical Design Software - CODE V | Synopsys
CODE V Optical Design Software
Design Brilliance™
Celebrating 50 Years of Making Better Optical Designs Faster
CODE V empowers engineers to tackle any optical design task with intuitive, intelligent tools, delivering better solutions, faster.
Get Your Design to Market, Faster
Build products quickly and accurately with CODE V. No other ray tracing software can get you to market faster, with fewer mistakes. Our advanced optimization algorithms and user-friendly interface streamline the design process, reducing development time and enhancing productivity. With CODE V, you can confidently deliver high-quality optical systems on time and within budget.
Save Time with Built-In Intelligence
CODE V incorporates built-in intelligence to optimize your design process and enhance performance. Our Global Synthesis AI delivers the best design solutions as quickly as possible, while Glass Expert selects the optimal set of glasses to maximize design performance and control manufacturing costs. With built-in tolerancing features, CODE V ensures fast and accurate analysis, making it easy to avoid costly manufacturing mistakes down the road. These intelligent tools enable you to focus on innovation and quality.
Perform Accurate Diffraction Analysis
Accurate diffraction analysis is crucial for the development of high-performance optical systems. CODE V's Beam Synthesis Propagation (BSP) sets the standard for precision and efficiency in diffraction analysis. This powerful tool uses a beamlet-based algorithm with proprietary enhancements to deliver extremely accurate modeling of diffracted wavefronts. Whether you're working on laser scanning systems, segmented aperture systems, or any other application requiring precise diffraction analysis, CODE V's BSP ensures you achieve the highest level of accuracy and performance.
Key Features
Multi-Environment Coupling (MECo): Achieve unprecedented athermalization of lens systems. Easily set up multiple environments at specific temperature and pressure settings, check system performance throughout the design process, and model lens designs based on any mounting technique (including spacer-based, seat-based, edge-mounted, and combinations). Read more or download white paper
Extensive Libraries: Access built-in libraries of optical system models (including patents), components, and optical glasses. Read more
Comprehensive Graphics Capabilities: Create pictures, data plots, shaded displays, and perform 3D visualizations and diffraction-based image simulations.
- Non-Sequential Surface Modeling: Model unusual optical systems with non-sequential surface modeling.
- Fast 2D Image Simulation: Quickly visualize optical system performance with 2D image simulation.
High-Fidelity Model Transfer: Transfer models to LightTools for illumination, ghost image, and stray light analysis.
- Meta Optic Design Add-On: Combine ray tracing with electromagnetic field solvers to simplify the design of systems that include both conventional optics and metalenses.
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Customer Testimonials: Real-World Success
“We are using CODE V for imaging and LightTools for non-imaging and illumination design since these tools are the most versatile and known to have a very strong optimization algorithm."
"The combination of imaging and non-imaging design helps to create unique systems that differentiate customer’s products from the competitors."
YOSI ARAZI, CEO & Co-Founder, Optical Designer, JOYA Team
“The team at Gray Optics finds the optimization and tolerancing capabilities of CODE V to be very strong."
"These capabilities enable us to complete designs and release them for manufacture very quickly."
REKHA DOSHI, Principal Optical Engineer, Gray Optics
ALEXANDER KAPUSTIN, Sr. Optical Engineer, Gray Optics
"One extremely useful feature of CODE V is its ability to import interference files from many commercially available metrology instruments."
“This capability helped us complete the project on time and according to specifications. CODE V was an instrumental part of our lens design and assembly process."
NED NESTOROVIC
President + Chief Optical Engineer, Seattle Photonics Associates
"The optimization routines are unbeatable, especially for our complex lenses with many individual optical elements."
“CODE V is an incredibly helpful tool for designing professional, high-end optics. Furthermore, the solutions with CODE V’s Global Synthesis optimization lead to high-performance systems. CODE V is one of the enabling technologies that allows NWS instruments to offer imaging tools for experts.”
DR. CHRISTOPH HORNEBER
Co-Founder and Director of Optical Design, NWS Instruments AG
“CODE V’s CAD visualization feature has proven to be a useful tool for viewing multiple subsystems simultaneously, as well as for comparing my current optical layout to that of a previous revision."
"It has allowed me to visualize the system throughout the design process before exporting the final optical model to CAD software. I have also used the feature to import CAD models for catalog optical mounting components, making it possible to efficiently refine a compact optical layout while avoiding interferences between mounts.”
DR. ANTHONY VELLA
Optical Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"We appreciate new features in CODE V that help us analyze, optimize, and tolerance optical systems to get into production quickly."
“As an optical design and engineering firm that specializes in custom precision systems, we are continuously challenged with new and demanding projects. The View Apertures (VAP) feature has been helpful in analyzing non-rotationally symmetric systems with complex apertures in both imaging and beam shaping. VAP has also been very helpful for communications between our optics and mechanics teams, as well as with our customers and suppliers.”
ANDRÉS CIFUENTES
Chief Executive Officer, ASE Optics Europe
“We rely on the speed, stability and flexibility of CODE V's optimization capabilities to develop sophisticated optical systems."
"With its global optimization features, its ability to control constraints exactly, and an interface that allows us to set up user-defined merit functions quickly and easily, CODE V gives us ultimate design freedom."
RUSS HUDYMA
Managing Partner, Hyperion Development LLC
"CODE V is essential for our lens design work at Nikon Research Corporation of America."
"We often require extraordinary correction with many surfaces, and several very high-order aspheres, resulting in too many variables for typical lens design optimization. CODE V’s optimization tools, such as Global Synthesis and Glass Expert, make it possible to successfully design such systems."
DAN SMITH, Ph.D.
Director of Optical Sciences and Technology, Nikon
"Rather than relying on MTF and PSF plots, the diffraction-based Image Simulation helps bridge the gap between perception and engineering metrics for our clients."
“The CODE V Image Simulation feature provides a convenient method for evaluating optical systems that are used in unconventional imaging environments, such as automotive surround, 3D (stereo) imaging or hyper-hemispheric imaging. We have used these tools to develop hyper-hemispheric designs and have found them to be effective in evaluating synthetic target imagery."
DR. JOHN TAMKIN
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Imaging Insights LLC
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Our dedicated support staff, with over 50 person-years of experience, is here to assist you. If you ever need help, our team is available to provide expert guidance. Additionally, you can access our comprehensive training programs, user manuals, videos, documentation, tutorials, example models, and more.
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