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Your Partner for Aerospace Optical Solutions
Leverage an extensive portfolio of advanced optical design software, hardware, and specialized services. Benefit from decades of aerospace experience to elevate your optical design and successfully deploy your next innovative product across various applications, including:
- Athermalized systems
- Aviation systems and lighting
- Cameras
- Drone optics
- Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) cameras
- LiDAR
- Satellite imagery
- Spectrometers
- Telescopes
- Radio over Fiber (RoF) communications
Advanced Software Tools for Optical Design and Simulation
Our advanced optical software solutions are tailored for aerospace and defense engineers, meeting design needs, boosting productivity, and adapting to industry demands to aid in creating innovative designs.
CODE V
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CODE V
CODE V empowers engineers to tackle any optical design task with intuitive, intelligent tools, delivering better solutions faster.
- Multi-Environment Coupling: Easily and simiply creates optimized designs unaffected by heat or air pressure.
- Delivers optimal design while considering manufacturing tolerances.
- Ultra-fast tolerance analysis
- Achieves more compact, higher performance with the use of freeform surfaces.
- Explore new capabilities with CODE V MetaOptic Design
- Conducts high-precision diffraction propagation analysis using Beam Propagation Analysis (BSP)
- Ensures seamless interoperability with high-fidelity model transfers to LightTools.
- Includes the AI-optimized Glass Expert tool for optimal glass selection.
- Features Global Synthesis design optimization tool to expedite time to market.
- Offers non-sequential surface modeling for complex systems.
- Allows swift visualization of system performance with fast 2D image simulation.
LightTools
LightTools enables you to quickly create illumination designs that work right the first try, reducing prototype iterations. Increase your productivity and decrease your time to market using LightTools' intelligent, easy-to-use tools.
- High-speed, multiple mode approach to stray light analysis.
- Offers sophisticated free-form optics and solid modeling with full optical accuracy.
- Available polarization, coherence, birefringence and path sequence ray tracing.
- Provides unparalleled ray tracing speed with user control over accuracy and resolution.
- Includes multiple ray trace modes, along with tolerancing, parameter sensitivity evaluation, local and global optimization
ImSym
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ImSym
ImSym integrates imaging system simulations into a single software platform with an intuitive user interface. ImSym’s principal image accuracy is powered by CODE V and its stray light analysis is powered by LightTools, the most trusted imaging and illumination optics design solutions in the industry.
- Obtain an end-to-end model of an imaging system, including lenses, sensors, and image and signal processors (ISPs) before manufacturing
- Visualize images with precise, quantitative data
- Streamline your development process
- Deliver high-performance imaging products to market faster
- Collaborate with design teams more efficiently
- Ensures confidence that products will work right when built
Optical Scattering Measurement Solutions
Leverage our scattering measurement services and equipment to analyze the optical behavior in aerospace applications. These solutions offer precise data and insights, boosting the performance and reliability of your aerospace optical systems.
- Accurately measure Bidirectional Scatter Distribution Function (BSDF) with state-of-the-art equipment
- Accurately assess stray light and scattering properties of antireflective coatings and absorbing materials to optimize image quality, reflectivity, transmittance, and overall light transmission efficiency for superior optical system performance
- Understand how light interacts with materials, a crucial aspect in designing optical systems for aerospace applications
RSoft Photonic Device Tools
Leverage a range of numerical approaches and utilities to design nano- and micro-optical elements for aerospace applications.
- Numerical approaches:
- Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD)
- Beam Propagation Method (BPM)
- Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis (RCWA)
- Finite Element Method (FEM)
- Utilities:
- Carrier-Induced Effects
- Electro-Optic Effects
- Thermo-Optic Effects
- Stress-Optic Effects
- Design complex on-chip LiDAR devices using FullWAVE FDTD for the emitter, Multiphysics Utility for the T-O phaser, and BeamPROP BPM for the splitter to achieve an optimal layout
- Automatically generate metalenses and metasurfaces with MetaOptic Designer; their compactness and reduced weight make them ideal for aerospace applications
Expert Engineering Support at Every Stage of Your Project
Synopsys also offers comprehensive engineering services to support you in your optical design projects. Our team of seasoned engineers is prepared to assist at any phase of your project. From initial concept development to final product realization, we stand by your side, asking the right questions and formulating solutions using our tools' superior design and optimization capabilities. You get a dedicated partner committed to the success of your project.
Designing the First Zoom Lens System on the Mars Rover
Synopsys optical engineers joined forces with Malin Space Science Systems, Motiv Space Systems, Arizona State University, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design the first-ever zoom lens system for interplanetary or deep space exploration, Mastcam-Z, using Synopsys CODE V optical design software.
Ensuring Design Success
Mitigating Risks in Aerospace Optical Design
Optical design in aerospace engineering comes with its share of risks and challenges. Our software tools are equipped with features that help mitigate these risks, providing solutions for expected fabrication errors in designs and ensuring that the end product meets the stringent standards of the aerospace industry.
Empowering Users with Support and Training
We empower our users with not just the right tools, but also the right skills. That's why we offer comprehensive support and training services, helping you get the most out of our software tools. Our team of experienced engineers is always ready to assist you at any stage of your project.
Keeping Pace with Technological Advancements
In the fast-paced field of aerospace engineering, staying updated with the latest technologies and standards is crucial. At Synopsys, we continuously update our software tools to incorporate the latest advancements in optical design and ensure compliance with the latest regulations and standards.
Cost-Effective and Compatible Software Solutions
Our software tools are designed to be compatible with a range of systems, making integration seamless and hassle-free. Moreover, we ensure that our tools provide excellent value for money, delivering top-tier features and benefits at competitive prices.
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