New Features for Lightguide Modeling

With the release of version 2023.1 a whole pack of new and interesting features have been added to the fast physical optics modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion. Fitting to one of the themes of the release – the “Detector Revolution” – we presented new tools to extract information about your optical system by means of the new Universal Detector and various helpful Add-ons.

In this week’s newsletter we want to highlight especially the new additions that have been made to the Lightguide Toolbox – our go-to tool for anyone interested in applications in the field of augmented and mixed reality (AR & MR), like the design and analysis of Near-Eye Displays. With the new release users have access to an overhauled Uniformity Detector that now includes graphical representations of the pupils that are used to calculate the uniformity, for a more convenient use. Furthermore, we also added a brand-new detector add-on designed to share information from the lightguide with the detector. With its help, users can now detect the field inside a lightguide and see the grating regions superimposed on the result. For more information, please take a look at the documents below.