Oslo is a powerful optical design program with the scope you need. Smith, optical system design robert fischer, introduction to lens design. Textbooks are often said to be the best way to learn. An optimization system for led lens design sciencedirect. Practical computeraided lens design by gregory hallock smith.
Tracepro, illumination and nonimaging optical design. With practical zemax examples joseph geary, are all great books, just to name a few. Optimization of led lens components using tracepro illumination design and. Copyright 2001 lambda research corporation tracepro lightpipe tutorial 2 light pipe make a cylinder. Aspheric lens trace pro, oslo, optiwave design consultancy. Mar 01, 2007 lambda research corporation, littleton, mass, a leading supplier of optical design software, has debuted tracepro 4. While advancements in the field over the past two centuries have done much to transform it from the former category to the latter, much of the lens design process remains encapsulated in the experience and knowledge of industry veterans. Tracepro is seamlessly interoperable with lens design software such as oslo, zemax and code v and with cad software such as solidworks, autocad, proe via a series of file translators. There are also many useful figures to help visualize the main issuesconsiderations of lens design. Optical reflector design using the tracepro interactive. Mechanical engineers and those skilled in 3d cad software experience the shortest learning curve with tracepro.
The license is to the original purchaser only, and is not transferable without written permission of lambda research corporation. In this treatise on led light pipes, the author explains the various light pipe options, how to select the best light pipe for an application, how to correctly match light pipes and then shows how. With tracepro optimization, the user starts with an. The resulting device is smaller and lighter, and possibly cheaper than the multilens design. Elements of computeraided optical design chapter 17 a. A large part of this book is devoted to a study of possible design procedures for various types of lens or mirror systems, with fully worked examples of each. Led simulation reflector lenses led reflector and lens simulation using. I dont need the lenses, just the books, and my supplier stopped making them. Tracepro s ray tracing engine is fast and accurate.
Free version of the winlens3d optical design package, which provides serious design and analysis tools for optical engineer, student or designer. Regarding the theory, consider the following books. Using tracepro s userfriendly, 3d cad interface you can create tracepro models by importing lens design or cad files, or by directly creating solid geometry. Optical reflector design using the tracepro interactive optimizer. Designing and optimizing light guides with tracepro. Tracepro illumination design and analysis software 4. Medical system designers use tracepro to minimize the cost and time of iterative hardware prototyping and laboratory and clinical testing. Tracepro is a commercial optical engineering software program for designing and analyzing optical and illumination systems.
Thus, he is ideally suited to write an uptodate edition of lens design fundamentals. Illumination design and measurement eckhardt optics llc. Trace pro, oslo, optiwave design consultancy optical software. Every step from setup specifications to finalizing the design for production is discussed in a straight forward, tangible way. To define a grating surface property, first create a new surface property in the usual way. Yes, it is design to do it, but a lot of operation that are easy to do in tracepro. A single aspheric lens can often replace a much more complex multilens system. A practical guide to lens design focuses on the very detailed practical process of lens design. Design and machining of fresnel solar concentrator surfaces. Oslo is a powerful optical design program with the scope you. Export the initial lens design from the interactive optimizer and use that to setup the model in tracepro.
Tracepro feature trace pro, oslo, optiwave design consultancy. Net books we recommend for optical design video how tos, hint, tips and secrets for lens design software from qioptiq linos photonics optical design is a highly complex subject. Lens design fundamentals rudolf kingslake, modern lens design warren j. Oslo is a powerful optical design program with the scope. Nov 10, 2019 home file exchange site for lens designs. Lens design fundamentals edition 2 by rudolf kingslake, r. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how. The resulting device is smaller and lighter, and possibly cheaper than the multi lens design. Home resources optical design illumination design and measurement eckhardt optics llc uses tracepro for illumination analysis and design. Tracepro simulation of lighting systems tracepro simulates all types of lighting systems, from troughers to down light systems. Optimization of led lens components using tracepro illumination design and analysis software 2 tracepros 2d and 3d optimization utilities are specifically designed to help cad designers without optical engineering expertise to design led optical components quickly. Tracepro is seamlessly interoperable with lens design software such as oslo, zemax and code v.
Tracepro solids lenses, fresnel lenses, reflectors, tubes, baffle vanes import from mechanical cad program acisbased cad program data can be shared step translation iges translation import from lens design program 5 lens design programs supported any combination of these can be incorporated into a single. Openraytrace is an optical lens design software that performs ray tracing. Tracepro automatically creates a solid model of the lens design using the curvature, thickness, material and clear aperture data, and saves it as an sat. In this book appendix part tracepro optical simulation sof. The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. The book not only covers theory of lens design but the author also delves into the math using practical examples. He was the author of modern optical engineering, modern lens design, and practical optical system layout and use of stock lenses. Tracepro uses a true solid modeling engine to ensure consistent and robust models.
Any entities that you create in tracepro are referred to collectively as a model. The product is based on spatial technologies acis engine creating compatibility with 170 other acis based programs, like autocad, cadkey, and solidworks. Both programs have been used to design and analyze many notable nasa optical systems, including. Gholographic company has extensive experience with nearly every kind of optical system, including instrumentation, astronomical, illumination, nightvision, infrared, eyepieces, architectural lighting, automotive, medical, solar industry and more. Optical reflector design using the tracepro interactive optimizer presented by. Any other suggestions on how to show lens tints in a way that looks profesional. Light rays propagate through the model with portions of the flux of each ray allocated for absorption, specular reflection and transmission, fluorescence, and scattering. No computer design info in this edition, if you need to design a specialty lens, get the second edition which would have one more star. I want to design lens for an array of leds having certain properties like collimation, light mixing, etc, and simulate diffraction patterns as well. Insert model for led and place surface source property with led properties on the appropriate surface to create the light source. Tracepro 2020 users manual i license agreement the purchaser of tracepro is granted a license to use this product subject to the following restrictions and limitations. Tracepro is renowned in the scientific community for the accuracy of its simulations. Oslo works seamlessly with our tracepro software to provide a complete and. In addition to classical lens design features, it combines advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization.
A single user license may only be used by one user and on one computer at a time. We have extensive experience with illumination for projection and have designed light guides, stage lighting, collection systems for spectroscopic analysis, led lenses and many other devices. Popular critical lens books showing 8 of 38 this changes everything. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading lens design. Tracepro includes a perfect mirror surface property so we only need to add the diffuser property. The introduction of the computer revolutionized the way lenses optical systems are designed and evaluated. An aspheric lens or asphere is a lens whose surfaces have a profile that is neither a portion of a sphere nor of a circular cylinder. Barry johnson is a disciple of conrady and kingslake, and who has a deep background in lens design theory as a professor of optics and many years of experience as a practicioner in the real world of lens design. Led simulation reflector lenses led reflector and lens simulation using tracepro illumination design and analysis software 2 as the interactive optimizer, the user is able to begin a project with an initial or basic design, which can be validated with interactive ray tracing and. Tracepro and oslo are robust tools for designing and analyzing optical systems for aerospace and defense applications. Using tracepro for led lighting design applications. Light guide design with tracepro 2d and 3d geometry modelers available in tracepro lc new in tracepro 7. Optimization of led lens components using tracepro.
This study proposed a twostage led lens design optimization system, and used the viewing angle and the luminance uniformity as the optical quality objective. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The handbook of optics, from the optical society of america, is a tremendously valuable resource for all optics practitioners each chapter is a great introduction for a specific optics subspecialti. The zemax code in the book is a bit dated by now but most users should be able to still use it for newer editions of the software. Design examples of several widely used modern lenses are provided. Zemaxoptics studio, asap, trace pro, lucid shape, oslo are the dominant commercial tools for designing of optical systems. Led lighting design, typical workflow project specification or design goal calculate source requirements choose source model source or get ray file set up initial model of optic lens or reflector in interactive optimizer set up initial model in tracepro, including optic, source, and target define optimization goals and targets. Field guide to lens design 2012 bentley publications. In addition to classical lens design features, oslo compbines advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization methods with a high speed macro language to solve a wide variety of new problems in optics design. Based on personal experience, this book gives enough information on practical lens design for the optical novice to design one. Optics laser trace pro, oslo, optiwave design consultancy. The programs graphical user interface is 3d cadbased creating a virtual prototyping environment to perform software simulation before manufacture. Tracepro is a powerful software tool for modeling imaging and nonimaging. Tracepro sets itself apart from other optical and illumination design software solutions with its uniquely friendly and intuitive graphical user interface.
Light emitting diodes leds used in lighting products and. An ideal optical system is expected to form a perfect image. Surface sources can be used in tracepro to model led light sources. Modern lens design mcgrawhill professional engineering. I want to design lens for an array of leds having certain properties like collimation. The tracepro manual contains proprietary information. Create models by directly creating the solid geometry in tracepro or by importing from a lens design program or a cad program.
A network license may be used by one or more users, up to the number purchased for the network license, on any computer connected to the license server via the network. After opening the surface property editor defineedit property datasurface. A practical guide optical sciences and applications of light. Design and machining of fresnel solar concentrator surfaces 367 with the successive feeds of three axes x, y and c, ultraprecision turning can realise any freeform surface turning. Using diffraction gratings in tracepro to use a diffraction grating in tracepro, you must first define a surface property that is of type grating, specify the diffraction efficiency of each order in the property, then apply the property to a surface. In addition to classical lens design features, oslo compbines advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization. Thoughts on an approach to learn optical lens design when you. A practical guide optical sciences and applications of light kindle edition by sun, haiyin. We can provide following books to support in design to our customer. During the translation, tracepro converts the lens design materials to the equivalent tracepro materials.
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