Surface Slope, Surface Curvature, and Phase Slope Analyses ImprovementsProductivity Enhancements
▣ New "Modulus" data type introduced for analyzing maximum surface slope, curvature, and phase slope - Available in settings of respective analyses and cross section analyses ▣ Modulus returns maximum value regardless of vector direction ▣ Added to Merit Function Operands: SSLP, SCRV, and PSLP for point-specific values; DSLP, DCRV, and QSLP for entire surface ▣ Enhances manufacturability by constraining maximum slope or curvature during optimization ▣ Example applications include ensuring manufacturable width of DOE lines or correct measurement of sag interferometrically
3D Layout: Pupil Visualization Improvements
▣ Enjoy enhanced precision in pupil visualization
▣ Support for off-axis systems using coordinate breaks
▣ Improved numerical precision to suppress noise
▣ Consistent depiction of paraxial/real exit pupils with dashed lines
▣ Paraxial/real entrance pupils depicted with solid lines for clarity
MTF Operands: Diffraction Limited MTF
▣ More efficient MTF optimization using the diffraction-limited MTF values directly.
▣ Enhanced Source File Object in NSC mode now accepts TM-25 files for source data.
▣ Export Capabilities
- Export rays from non-sequential ray trace to TM-25 ray files.
- Includes electric field and phase data in TM-25 exports.
▣ Expanded Feature Support
- Source Viewer, Flux vs. Wavelength, and Light Source Analysis now support TM-25 ray files.
Physical Optics Propagation (POP): Support for Black Box
▣ Conduct POP analyses seamlessly within systems containing Black Boxes
▣ Incorporates encrypted components for wave optics analysis
▣ Ensures confidentiality of sensitive or proprietary data
▣ Valuable across various applications, particularly in fiber coupler or photonic integrated circuit design
FFT MTF Multithreading
▣ Performance Improvements
- Enhanced utilization of CPU resources
- Optimized for systems with multiple fields
- Improved efficiency for multi-wavelength analyses
▣ Greater complexity yields more significant improvements
- E.g. on a 4-core laptop a cellphone camera lens (3 wavelengths, 5 fields, paraxial ray aiming, 14 surface deformation files, 2 thermal GRINs) → calculation time went from 6 minutes to 3 minutes 45 seconds.
Lumerical Sub-Wavelength Model (LSWM) Dynamic Link: Support for Gratings on Curved Surfaces
▣ Elevate your AR designs with the latest enhancement
▣ Previous dynamic link limited to defining gratings on planar surfaces
▣ Updated plugin enables dynamic definition of gratings on curved surfaces
- Curved surfaces include Binary 1, Binary 2, Binary 2A, Hologram Lens, Lenslet Array 1, and Toroidal Hologram
▣ Valuable for modeling diffractive components in AR applications like waveguides
Ansys Speos 2024 R2 Highlights
Surface Slope, Surface Curvature, and Phase Slope Analyses ImprovementsProductivity Enhancements
- Available in settings of respective analyses and cross section analyses
▣ Modulus returns maximum value regardless of vector direction
▣ Added to Merit Function Operands: SSLP, SCRV, and PSLP for point-specific values; DSLP, DCRV, and QSLP for entire surface
▣ Enhances manufacturability by constraining maximum slope or curvature during optimization
▣ Example applications include ensuring manufacturable width of DOE lines or correct measurement of sag interferometrically
3D Layout: Pupil Visualization Improvements
▣ Enjoy enhanced precision in pupil visualization
▣ Support for off-axis systems using coordinate breaks
▣ Improved numerical precision to suppress noise
▣ Consistent depiction of paraxial/real exit pupils with dashed lines
▣ Paraxial/real entrance pupils depicted with solid lines for clarity
MTF Operands: Diffraction Limited MTF
▣ More efficient MTF optimization using the diffraction-limited MTF values directly.
▣ Targeting diffraction-limited MTF values enhances optimization
▣ Grid = 1 and Field = 0 yields diffraction limited values
▣ Improvement spans all three MTF operands (MTFS, MTFT, MTFA)
Tolerance Operands for off-axis apertures and RSIs
▣ Rotationally Symmetric Irregularities (RSIs) are a problem for systems with lots of surfaces.
▣ New irregularity operands, that use the format of the ISO drawing note:
3|A(B/C), which specifies tolerance on ROC, tolerance on irregularity, and tolerance on RSI.
- ISOA: Tolerance on peak-to-peak power
- ISOB: Tolerance on total peak-to-valley irregularity
- ISOC: Tolerance on peak-to-valley rotationally symmetric irregularity (RSI)
- ISOD: Tolerance on RMS total irregularity
▣ OpticStudio will add a Zernike Standard Sag surface as a Composite Surface and alter one or more Zernike terms depending on the operand
- i.e. ISOA → Z4; ISOB → Z5 – Z37; ISOC → Z11, Z22, Z37, Z56; ISOD → Z5 – Z37
Source File: IES TM-25
▣ Enhanced Source File Object in NSC mode now accepts TM-25 files for source data.
▣ Export Capabilities
- Export rays from non-sequential ray trace to TM-25 ray files.
- Includes electric field and phase data in TM-25 exports.
▣ Expanded Feature Support
- Source Viewer, Flux vs. Wavelength, and Light Source Analysis now support TM-25 ray files.
Physical Optics Propagation (POP): Support for Black Box
▣ Conduct POP analyses seamlessly within systems containing Black Boxes
▣ Incorporates encrypted components for wave optics analysis
▣ Ensures confidentiality of sensitive or proprietary data
▣ Valuable across various applications, particularly in fiber coupler or photonic integrated circuit design
FFT MTF Multithreading
▣ Performance Improvements
- Enhanced utilization of CPU resources
- Optimized for systems with multiple fields
- Improved efficiency for multi-wavelength analyses
▣ Greater complexity yields more significant improvements
- E.g. on a 4-core laptop a cellphone camera lens (3 wavelengths, 5 fields, paraxial ray aiming, 14 surface deformation files, 2 thermal GRINs) → calculation time went from 6 minutes to 3 minutes 45 seconds.
Lumerical Sub-Wavelength Model (LSWM) Dynamic Link: Support for Gratings on Curved Surfaces
▣ Elevate your AR designs with the latest enhancement
▣ Previous dynamic link limited to defining gratings on planar surfaces
▣ Updated plugin enables dynamic definition of gratings on curved surfaces
- Curved surfaces include Binary 1, Binary 2, Binary 2A, Hologram Lens, Lenslet Array 1, and Toroidal Hologram
▣ Valuable for modeling diffractive components in AR applications like waveguides
Export Optical Design to Speos Improvements
▣ Comprehensive Optical Workflow Integration
- Path to Advanced System-Level Design
- Enables full optical product workflows
- Facilitates stray light analysis in Speos
▣ Updates:
- Newly Supported Sequential Surfaces
• Biconic
• Biconic Zernike
• Polynomial
• Extended Polynomial
• Zernike Standard Sag
• Zernike Fringe Sag
- Expanded Support for Non-Sequential Objects
• Biconic Lens
• Biconic Zernike Lens
• Extended Polynomial Lens
• Extended Polynomial Surface
• Zernike Surface
• Biconic Zernike Surface
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio Student Edition Released