NEWS

Enhancements of 3-D Grating Simulation

(August 27, 2010)

The simulation of 3-D grating structures is being considerably enhanced in the forthcoming version of VirtualLab™. Real 3-D grating structures are used more and more extensively for the design of optical components. The rigorous simulation techniques provided by VirtualLab™ give an insight to the op...

Get in touch at SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA!

(July 13, 2010)

We offer several opportunities to learn more about VirtualLab™ at SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA, starting August 1, 2010. VirtualLab™ is being presented at the SPIE show at booth 628 of our distributor in the United States, Jenoptik Optical Systems, Inc. Further a free seminar on &quot...

VirtualLab™ 4.8 Released

(July 09, 2010)

VirtualLab™ and VirtualLab™ Advanced 4.8 have been released. VirtualLab™ 4.8 extends the flexibility of 2-D grating simulations. Using so called stacks, the period of the structure can be defined by sequences of optical interfaces, including grating, conical, aspherical, sampled and programmable int...

Components of Starter Toolbox

You can choose between ideal and real components. The ideal components include, for example, plane mirrors, beam splitters, lenses, gratings, stops and apertures, retarders, polarization rotators and any kind of transmission function. The Starter Toolbox comes with numerous real components like plates, lenses, sequences of aspherical interfaces, index modulated media and mirrors.


Sequences of aspherical and spherical interfaces are combined in the AIS component. The propagation through the AIS is modeled by pure geometrical optics (GeOp Operator) or by a sequence of geometrical optics and free-space propagation (GOFS Operator). This sequence is identified and optimized automatically.