White Papers 

As a decision maker responsible for making the right choices for your company’s bottom line, you understand that the return on any engineering tool investment is a crucial part of your business’ growth and profitability. Why would you choose CODE V when there are potential solutions available with lower up-front costs? Because the return value from CODE V is far greater than the investment costs.
Jay Wilson, CODE V Sales Engineer, Optical Solutions Group

As a decision maker responsible for making the right choices for your company’s bottom line, which optical design software should you choose? If the performance or cost of your illumination subsystem is critical to the success of your products, the answer is LightTools. LightTools will increase your engineering productivity, enable faster time to market, and provide your products the competitive edge they need. It accomplishes this through unique design and analysis techniques that support complex geometries and quickly provide accurate results.
Stuart David, Sr. Manager, WW Sales, Optical Solutions Group

During the design of any optical system destined to be manufactured, it is critical to define a fabrication and assembly budget. This budget must consider any potential compensation that will be used during the manufacturing process to mitigate the performance degradation introduced by fabrication variations. It is important to specify the best set of tolerances and compensators, as these will significantly impact the manufacturing costs. The complex process of defining system tolerances and compensators is often simply called, tolerancing.
David Hasenauer, CODE V Product Manager

Phosphors exhibit photoluminescence, the process by which a material absorbs light of a specific spectral range and re-emits light of another spectral range with longer wavelengths. Because of the increased availability of phosphor-based white light-emitting diodes, the use of phosphors is increasingly prevalent in illumination design. To ensure that simulations for such illumination designs are accurate, it is important to accurately model the optical effects of phosphors. To describe how phosphors are modeled in LightTools, this paper explains how LightTools inputs correlate to theoretical models, as well as how to obtain the necessary data.
Optical Solutions Group, Synopsys