CODE V optical design software is a computer aided design software used to model, analyze, optimize, and provide fabrication support for the development of optical systems for diverse applications. This optical ray tracing software provides a powerful and yet easy-to-use toolkit of optical techniques and calculations that enables you to create superior designs that will work right when built.
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CODE V Optical Design Software
What's New in CODE V
CODE V includes new solutions to increase optical engineering productivity, support cost-to-manufacture savings, and give reliable results in less time.
Key Features
CODE V has a vast array of technical, graphical, and ease-of-use features that makes it the lens design software of choice for developing superior imaging optics. The following list of key features is just a small subset of what is available.
- Design optimization (including Global Synthesis) that speeds time to market
- Fast, accurate tolerancing for superior fabrication support
- Accurate, groundbreaking beam propagation analysis
- Extensive built-in libraries of optical system models (patents, etc.), components, and optical glasses
- Comprehensive graphics capabilities (pictures, data plots, shaded displays), including 3D visualizations and diffraction-based image simulations
- Non-sequential surface modeling for unusual systems
- Fast 2D image simulation to visualize optical system performance
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Global Synthesis Feature
Obtain multiple design solutions in three easy steps with Global Synthesis®
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Beam Synthesis Propagation Feature
Groundbreaking accuracy and ease of use with Beam Synthesis Propagation™
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“As an optical design and engineering firm that specializes in custom precision systems, we are continuously challenged with new and demanding projects. We appreciate new features in CODE V that help us analyze, optimize, and tolerance optical systems to get into production quickly. The View Apertures (VAP) feature has been helpful in analyzing non-rotationally symmetric systems with complex apertures in both imaging and beam shaping. VAP has also been very helpful for communications between our optics and mechanics teams, as well as with our customers and suppliers.”
--Andrés Cifuentes, chief executive officer of ASE Optics Europe
“The CODE V Image Simulation feature provides a convenient method for evaluating optical systems that are used in unconventional imaging environments, such as automotive surround, 3D (stereo) imaging or hyper-hemispheric imaging. We have used these tools to develop hyper-hemispheric designs and have found them to be effective in evaluating synthetic target imagery. Rather than relying on MTF and PSF plots, the diffraction-based Image Simulation helps bridge the gap between perception and engineering metrics for our clients."
--Dr. John Tamkin, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Imaging Insights LLC
"We rely on the speed, stability and flexibility of CODE V's optimization capabilities to develop sophisticated optical systems. With its global optimization features, its ability to control constraints exactly, and an interface that allows us to set up user-defined merit functions quickly and easily, CODE V gives us ultimate design freedom."
--Russ Hudyma, managing partner, Hyperion Development LLC
Why Choose CODE V?
Read how your investment with CODE V delivers unsurpassed return on investment. If you want to save your company time and money, take an in-depth look on why CODE V is the best software for optical design.
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Applications
This software is used for designing imaging systems, where you are trying to image a point (or plane wave) in object space to a point (or plane wave) in image space.
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Customer Support Portal
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