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Alexander Graf

"During my physics studies, I’ve never came in touch with computer generated holograms (CHG). When I’ve started to work in a sophisticated project, whose core component is a CHG, I was fascinated by the almost limitless possibilities of encoding and combining different optical functionalities with simultaneous control of all relevant spot properties that was enabled by this technology and its elegant design and simulation capabilities in VirtualLab Fusion. Great & fast support and teaching helped me to understand the physical principles behind and how to simulate them."

Alexander Graf
ARGES, part of Novanta
12.07.2023


Anthony Salerni

„As a doctoral student whos research topics are very interdisciplinary, optics and optical modeling was a subject that was mainly self-taught out of necessity. I’m absolutely delighted with the training course offered by LightTrans which not only helped me master some of the more advanced functions of the Fusion Lab software, but also helped fill in gaps in my knowledge base, walking away with a more robust understanding of the subject as a whole.“

Anthony Salerni
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
13.10.2021


Prof. Dr. Stefan Kontermann

„VirtualLab Fusion offers excellent opportunities in research projects and is perfect for use in teaching, especially since there are many documented application examples available.“

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kontermann
Hochschule RheinMain
26.03.2021


Dr. Benjamin Heck

“Nowadays ray tracing is not sufficient anymore. For a detailed analysis physical optics is required. VirtualLab Fusion is optimized for wave-optical simulations. The results we achieved are excellent. We can highly recommend VirtualLab Fusion. Not only the software is great, but also the support of the whole LightTrans team.

Dr. Benjamin Heck
Raylase GmbH
07.11.2019


Philina Madrian

“The VirtualLab training is a perfect start for optics simulation beginners. The trainer was patient and supporting. I really enjoyed learning in such a comfortable and nice environment.”

Philina Madrian
Silicon Austria Labs GmbH
24.09.2019


Kristina Uhlendorf

“The VirtualLab Fusion Training on Gratings and Diffractive Optical Elements helped me a lot to better understand and handle VirtualLab Fusion. It is somehow essential.”

Kristina Uhlendorf
Jabil Optics Germany GmbH
Germany
29.03.2019


Ryo Kajiura

"By taking the maturity of GUI and the easiness of tracking the logged data, VirtualLab seems to be the best tool for diffractive components designing.”

Ryo Kajiura
Visteon Electronics
Germany
19.04.2018


Dr. Fabian Petrovsky

“This is one of the most elaborate pieces of software I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. My workflow now is not only faster and more pleasant, but also very well documented with little to no effort on that point. Also, I must recommend the training courses not only to novices but also for experienced optical designers – they are both informative and entertaining.”

Dr. Fabian Patrovsky
CDA GmbH
Suhl, Germany
19.04.2018


Xiaoyan Yu

“Since the contents of training are so plentiful and time is short, the arrangement of the course is understandable. For the software VirtualLab Fusion, sometimes I think there are too much function buttons and parameters in one operation interface, which makes me dizzy. And to realize a specific function or modify one parameter, maybe I need to do a series of manipulation to open the right dialogbox (operation interface) and it is hard for me to remember all the process.”

Xiaoyan Yu
Jena University
Germany
17.04.2018


Yaron Gross

“Overall I found the course to be very good. The instructor was very knowledgable and helpful with all questions.”

Yaron Gross
Apple
Israel
08.03.2018
 


Galina Machaviariani

“Excellent program, amazing capabilities, and very user-friendly interface.”

Galina Machaviariani
Apple
Israel
08.03.2018
 


Janos Keresztes

"Great course, great software. Very dense training. We would need another ½ day to cover the material a little more comfortably. … I appreciate the code editing improvements :-). Sign me in for Beta tests. …”

Janos Keresztes
Apple
USA
18.10.2017


Daniel Karseboom

"VirtualLab Fusion in its current rendition has the potential to expedite optics research & development significantly. I look forward to the continued progression of this program.”

Daniel Karseboom
Irvine Sensors
USA
18.10.2017


CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik

"With the assistance of VirtualLab Fusion we are able to design and simulate complex optical systems. This allows the realization of a rapid development process."

Department MOEMS
CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH
Erfurt, Germany
05.12.2017


Yi Zhang

“Very useful class, probably a bit slower, more details would be better.”

Yi Zhang
Oculus
USA
18.10.2017


Byron Cocilovo

"VirtualLab is the only program I have seen that incorporates ray tracing, RCWA, and other modeling methods. VirtualLab also picks the modeling method that provides the best result with the least computation.”

Byron Cocilovo
Apple
USA
19.10.2016


Nick Cirucci

"This course was useful to help give me a boost in learning a software program I normally would have had a bit of a steep learning curve to learn all details.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Nick Cirucci
Microsoft
USA
19.10.2016


Fei Liu

"For anyone wants to jump start in design diffractive optics, this VirtualLab course is a must class to take.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Fei Liu
Oculus
USA
19.10.2016


Christine Chen

"Would recommend the course to people who have spent some time on the tool.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Christine Chen
Foxconn Interconnect
USA
19.10.2016


Khoa Nguyen

"Highly recommended! Course length is just right. Amount of information is also just right. You can get up and running VirtualLab after this.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Khoa Nguyen
USA
19.10.2016


Basim Khudhair

"VirtualLab is a professional tool that in my view is one of the very best in software for solving a complex light phenomena. It shows innovative and effective solution for unexpected experimental results I got during my academic study. No need for a complex programming language.

The team at LightTrans is very helpful, friendly and kind. I am convening our institute to cooperate with VirtualLab."

Basim Khudhair
Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics (INA)
University of Kassel
18.04.2016


Ulrich Wetzel

“A very helpful survey to many aspects of using a powerful program to cope with complex questions in diffractive optics.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2016)

Ulrich Wetzel
Siemens AG
Erlangen, Germany
18.03.2016


Anurag Gupta

“Awesome software engineering! The best parallelization of workflow across the board that I have ever seen in an optical design software.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Anurag Gupta
Google
Mountain View, CA, USA
20.03.2015


Marko Virsek

“One of the most rigorous presented tools on seminar and on website.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Marko Virsek
Hella Saturnus
Ljubliana, Slovenia
20.03.2015


Gebirie Yizengaw

“I had a very good course of VirtualLab during this training. I can now have a feeling of what can be done and can’t without VirtualLab. Overall, everything was perfect including the teaching, exercise, organization. And thank you.”
 (about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Gebirie Yizengaw
Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Belgium
20.03.2015


Jae-Won Cha

“The software is a must-have tool for a wave-analysis purpose. Definitely it is different from the other previous design tools, but VirtualLab has its own advantages over already well-known software. It is also a very intuitive tool with well-constructed GUI, especially the capability of setting the light source and/or the target with an image file is very easy to use.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Jae-Won Cha
Samsung Electronics
Sowon-si, South Korea
20.03.2015


Federico Landini

“VirtualLab is a very promising software that is helping in solving some peculiar diffraction issues that have been causing headaches to the community.

The support team is very helpful and works side-by-side with the customer in order to adapt the software and its modules to the needs.

The training course was brilliantly structured, with a 2-days practical general introduction plus a whole day dedicated to our precise needs.”

Federico Landini
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Firenze, Italy
24. 03. 2015


Matteo Taccola

“VirtualLab is a great tool with special features, as for instance the rigorous treatment of diffraction effects, that nicely complement the analyses usually performed with standard optical design software.

The high degree of customisation and the technical support provided by LightTrans are opening the possibility to perform analyses of complex optical systems that were considered unfeasible before.

The course of VirtualLab was very well structured and tailored to our specific needs.”

Matteo Taccola
ESA / ESTEC
Noordwijk, Netherlands
25.02.2015


Dr. Thomas Juhasz

“JENOPTIK is using VirtualLab for the design of microoptical components as well as the simulation and rigorous analysis of microoptical systems.

On the one hand, with its user friendly interface, VirtualLab supports the designer with taking away much of the complexity involved with microoptical design and wave theoretical analysis, making the design process much more efficient.

On the other hand, VirtualLab still provides full control and flexibility with the possibility to write own snippets and modules for special design tasks.

We cooperate closely with the experts of LightTrans in solving complex optical design tasks and appreciate the short response time and competent support of LightTrans.”

Dr. Thomas Juhasz
Product Development Microoptics
Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Jena, Germany
08.10.2014


Jorma Palmen

“The well-structured course served exactly those needs I had. I highly recommend the course for those VirtualLab users, who have learned the use of the utility by trial and error by themselves.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Jorma Palmen
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland
26.09.2014


Wilfried Noell

“The course covers all relevant DOE-Topics in sufficient depth. The exercises are well explained.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Wilfried Noell
SUSS MicroOptics SA
Hauterive, Switzerland
26.09.2014


Olivier Gagliano

“This course is high level in terms of scientific content, quality of the speakers and welcome in LightTrans office building.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Olivier Gagliano
Sun Partner Group
Aix-en-Provence, France
26.09.2014


Daniel Lloyd

“A very useful course well pitched to help with understanding and using VirtualLab.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Daniel Lloyd
Laser Optical Engineering
East Midlands Airport, United Kingdom
26.09.2014


Bohumil Stoklasa

“Basic course is really very useful before you start to do the real work in VirtualLab.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Bohumil Stoklasa
Meopta-Optika
Prerov, Czech Republic
23.09.2014

 


Roberto Knoth

“VirtualLab is one of the most exciting ways to discover the physical behavior of light. This “all in one” software includes coating analyses, microstructure design, illumination and imaging optics but also rigorous grating analysis and resonator physics.

The smart implementation of complex algorithms like the Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm is fast and intuitive leading to high quality manufacturing results.

Especially, the programming interface of VirtualLab is incomparable to other optical design software and provides a nearly unlimited implementation capability of customized light sources, optical components and mathematical methods.”

Roberto Knoth
R&D | Microstructures
POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH
Germany
17.09.2014


Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Liechtenstein

“Our dongle was defect after more than 6 years in use. LightTrans has replaced it very fast and free of charge. The customer support is friendly and highly appreciated. VirtualLab is a powerful tool for wave optic simulations.”

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Liechtenstein
31.1.2014


Thomas Niedereichholz

“Novel light fields and beam profiles such as top-hat, multispot generation as well as LG-/Airy-/Bessel beams are becoming increasingly important. They are also gaining greater acceptance in applications such as high-throughput laser-material-processing, high-resolution / lightsheet microscopy and even quantum optics.

LCOS Spatial Light Modulators allow high quality, fully flexible and dynamic creation of these lightmodes. Virtual Lab helps our customers to easily design and calculate the according phase patterns with appropriate CGH (computer generated hologram) algorithms or diffractive optical element (DOE) approach and optimize them according to their experimental set-up. Having this powerful software makes it easy to start using light as a new and powerful tool and concentrate on the application itself.”

Thomas Niedereichholz
Sales Engineer
Life Science and Spectroscopy Solutions
Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH
9.1.2014


Dr. Mandiaye NDAO

“Your software “Virtual Lab” is just unique and amazing in the way that it makes abstraction of mathematic or physics complexity behind. The interface and using experience is very simple and intuitive. Therefore it becomes, more straightforward to focus on the engineering tasks and physics interpretations than the underlying mathematics or modeling”. I have been myself working on similar concept during my thesis, but implemented on Matlab at that time (~10 years ago), so having this tool now is like having a dream which became reality.”

Dr. Mandiaye NDAO
Senior Expert
Altran GmbH & Co. KG
Frankfurt, Germany
08.07.2013


Dr. A. N. Kaul

"Virtuallab is a powerful and versatile tool for modeling of optical systems especially at scales where wave optical effects becomes prominent. It has a well thought out user interface that is intuitive, flexible and easy to use. At IRDE, we use Virtuallab for accurate modeling of optical systems that have diffractive / micro-optical components."

Dr. A. N. Kaul
Head, Photonics Division
IRDE Dehradun
India
14.01.2013


Prof. Dr. Matthias Brinkmann

"VirtualLab is a very powerful tool for the simulation and optimization of wave-optical problems. The results are highly accurate and reliable. The software handling is very intuitive and easy to learn. I use VirtualLab for both education and research projects."

Prof. Dr. Matthias Brinkmann
Fachhochschule Darmstadt
Fachbereich Mathematik/ Naturwissenschaften
Darmstadt, Germany
21.09.2012


Prof. Dr. Christoph Stamm

„Wir verwenden LightTrans erfolgreich, um Speckleerscheinungen in diversen Anwendungen zu analysieren. Die Software ist gut zu bedienen, recht flexibel und schnell. Der technische Support bei allfälligen Fragen ist vorbildlich.“

„We apply LightTrans VirtualLab successfully for analyzing speckle phenomena in various applications. The software is easily operated, quite flexible and fast. The technical support in case of questions is excellent.“

Prof. Dr. Christoph Stamm
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
Winterthur, Switzerland
24.10.2012


Andrew Stockham

"Some years ago, I had an idea for a software platform that would enable me to do my optical designs and translate them into photomasks. I envisioned files representing any complex field that could be displayed like a bitmap. And the user could simply press a button, and the software program would calculate the Fourier transform, or perhaps normalize the values, or whatever one needed doing. When I saw VirtualLab for the first time, I realized that this was the software platform that I was thinking of, and it already exists! You have saved me a lot of time and hard work, and done a far better job of it than I could have ever hoped."

Andrew Stockham
Optical Sciences Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
22.11.2012


Dr. Amir-Ahmad Saghiri

“A perfect tool for calculating and optimizing micro optical components.”

Dr. Amir-Ahmad Saghiri
Carl-Zeiss Jena GmbH
Jena, Germany
12.10.2012


Prof. Kevin Heggarty

“Powerful software with a well thought-out interface and a highly competent speaker.”
(feedback after software training course)

Prof. Kevin Heggarty, M.Sc.
Télécom Bretagne, Departement d'Optique
Brest, France
12.10.2012


Dr. Vit Lédl, Pavel Psota

"We have been using the LightTrans VirtualLab Diffractive Toolbox for one year, and especially the design of diffractive and refractive beam shapers has never been easier before. VirtualLab has become our daily bread.”

Dr. Vit Lédl, Pavel Psota
TOPTEC / Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
Turnov, Czech Republic
31.10.2012


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