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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.

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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.

CODE V Gets Your Products to Market Faster | Synopsys

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).

  • Extensive Libraries: Access built-in libraries of optical system models (including patents), components, and optical glasses.

  • 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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360-degree panorama taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU

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The Best Support in the Industry

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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