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Celebrating 30 Years of Illumination Design
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.
Freeform Optical Design
Interoperability With CODE V
Be Quicker and More Productive
LightTools' optimization tool helps you quickly find the best design solution. Focus more on your design and less on setup and boost productivity thanks to LightTools' easy-to-learn, intuitive interface.
Key Features
- Sophisticated solid modeling with full optical accuracy
- State-of-the-art ray tracing speed, with full user control of accuracy and resolution requirements
- Create a light source from any geometric model, for unlimited flexibility to create custom sources
- Application-specific utilities to help you quickly build a complete model
- Extensive source and materials libraries, including LEDs and BSDF measurements
- Robust data exchange support for mechanical CAD data
- Interactive, dynamic link with SOLIDWORKS
- Multiple immersion for modeling the embedded phosphor in an encapsulated LED
- Full integration with LightTools 3D solid modeling ensures that the optimizer delivers practical, realistic solutions that yield the best possible system performance, in a fraction of the time it would take to accomplish manually
- Backlight Pattern Optimization for automatic design of backlight extraction patterns for LCDs, cell phone key pads, and automotive instrument clusters
- LightTools’ interactive user interface is easy to learn and includes many features to boost your productivity as you create and modify illumination system elements.
- Angular and spatial luminance analysis
- Simulations of real-world conditions, including surface effects like polarization, scatter, reflection, refraction, and the performance of thin film coatings. Material effects such as dispersion, volumetric absorption, volume scattering, and color filtering can also be included.
- Fast and robust forward and backward Monte Carlo ray tracing
- Get accurate, fast predictions of your illumination system’s color performance.
- High-fidelity transfer of models from CODE V for illumination, ghost image, and stray light analysis
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Optical Scattering Measurement Solutions
Optical scattering measurements characterize how light is reflected or transmitted from surfaces or materials, considering factors like angle of incidence, wavelengths, and polarization. These measurements are crucial for R&D, quality control, and optical simulation. Synopsys' LightTools and LucidShape products offer SmartStart Libraries for precise light scattering data, saving time and reducing costs. Our in-house lab provides custom measurement services, including 2D and 3D BSDF, high-resolution BSDF, and more.
The Best Support in the Industry
Our customer success team is anchored by experienced optical engineers who are experts on LightTools. If you ever need help, our team is available, along with comprehensive documentation, tutorials, FAQs, and more.
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Synopsys Optical Solutions for Designing Display Systems for Augmented and Virtual Reality Systems
This article explores a key optical system in XR devices and highlights Synopsys Optical Solutions products for designing display systems for these innovative applications.
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Optimize Your Design for Manufacturing with LightTools: Advanced Design with Global Optimization
Learn how you can use the LightTools global optimization engine.
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Creating Augmented Reality Optics: The Successful Partnership of JOYA Team and Synopsys
The collaboration between the JOYA Team, Brilliant Labs, and Synopsys demonstrates the role of advanced design tools like CODE V and LightTools in the successful development of AR optics.
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