NEWS

Learn more about VirtualLab™ at "Photonics West 2012”!

(January 11, 2012)

LightTrans is planning several activities at the Photonics West Conferences and Exhibitions taking place in San Francisco, CA, starting on January 21 2012. We would like to welcome you at our booth no. 4601 in the German Pavilion and invite you to a presentation of VirtualLab™ 5 – the new generation...

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VirtualLab™ 5.1 Released!

(December 20, 2011)

The latest release VirtualLab™ 5.1 introduces several novelties and improvements. First, a 3D view of the entire system has been introduced making the system setup easier. A ray tracing mode is available now which gives a first insight about the behavior of systems. Catalogs for light sources and co...

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Software Courses 2012 – First Announcement

(November 28, 2011)

In order to allow a reliable planning for our customers we have scheduled two software courses for 2012 already. The two courses are

Course 1: April 24 - 27, 2012 "Introduction to Unified Optical Modeling using LightTrans VirtualLab™" Speaker: Dr. Michael Kuhn, LightTrans Target Group: ...

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Selected Features

  • VirtualLab™ is the only software platform in the world based on the unified optical modeling concept
  • Sources for generating Hermite and Laguerre Gaussian beams, spherical waves, plane waves and super Gaussian beams
  • Automatic sampling of fields and smart selection of propagation techniques
  • Temporal and spatial coherence modeling
  • Modeling takes polarization and color effects into consideration
  • Equipped with a variety of ideal components, e. g., ideal lens, gratings, apertures, stops and customized transmission functions
  • Equipped with real components, e. g., plates, lenses, sequences of aspherical surfaces, index-modulated media, diffractive elements and gratings
  • Spectrum of plane waves, Fresnel, far-field and Rayleigh- Sommerfeld propagation
  • Geometrical optics technique for propagation through interfaces and Beam propagation technique for modeling index-modulated media
  • Detectors for laser optics, micro-optics and illumination