Release History VirtualLab™

The complete history of release notes can be found here as pdf document.

VirtualLab™ 5.5.5 is a service releases without additional features. Please read the release notes for more details.

April 2013.

VirtualLab™ 5.5.1 is a service releases without additional features. Please read the release notes for more details.

January 2013.

VirtualLab™ 5.5 introduces programmable components and programmable detectors extending user defined modeling considerably. Both, MATLAB® and C# routines can be integrated in order to enhance the field tracing simulation techniques provided by VirtualLab™. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

December 17 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.4.1 is a service releases without additional features. Please read the release notes for more details.

October 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.4 improves the performance of grating simulations and adds once again more flexibility for the description of optical systems including interfaces and light sources. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

September 30 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.3 are service releases without additional features. Please read the release notes for more details.

July/August 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.3 improves the performance of the export for interfaces and introduces new data formats including CIF. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

June 30, 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.2.1 is a service release without additional features.

April 25, 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.2 makes use of faster FFT routines which accelerates simulation and design. Further a new ABCD matrix calculator is available and the export of GDS II data provides an option for data compression. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

March 29, 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.1.2 resolves some GUI problems for detectors and interfaces. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

January 19, 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.1.1 resolves some GUI problems and introduces some improvements for grating simulations. Please read the release notes for a complete list and more details.

January 9, 2012.

VirtualLab™ 5.1 introduces a 3D view of the entire system making the setup easier. A ray tracing mode is available now which gives a first insight about the behavior of systems. Catalogs for light sources and components have been added. Further, the usage of grating components has been revised, in particular more options for defining rotations have been added. These are just a few of many more innovations, please read the complete release notes for a complete list and more details.

December 19, 2011.

VirtualLab™ 5.0.3 is a service release without additional features.

September 12, 2011.

VirtualLab™ 5 introduces a variety of new features and improvements. First of all, the new Lighting Toolbox provides field tracing and design tools that give more flexibility for the design of compact illumination systems using microstructures and diffractive optics for the homogenization and shaping of LED light. In addition, VirtualLab™ 5 contains new session editors that simplify the design and the parametric optimization of refractive laser beam shaping systems. Further, parametric optimization has been enabled for the design of sub-wavelength gratings which can be used e.g. as antireflection structures or in order to modify the polarization of incident light. The simplified handling of Fresnel zones for optical interfaces and new modes for the control of the parameter run are some of the other new features of VirtualLab™ 5. Please read the complete release notes for additional improvements and more details.

June 22, 2011.