Software Articles

Synopsys acquires RSoft, expands photonics software offering

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:56:00 GMT

Mountain View, CA--Optoelectronics software provider Synopsys completed the acquisition of photonics design and simulation software company RSoft Design Group, extending its optical solutions offering.

CLEO/Laser Focus World 2012 Innovation Awards

Tue, 01 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

The 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards program is designed to honor the most timely, groundbreaking products in the field of photonics and laser science. The awards are sponsored by Laser Focus World and the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO).

SOFTWARE & COMPUTING: Optical software models partially spatially coherent beam propagation

Tue, 01 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Most optical engineers can adequately perform their engineering tasks by assuming that the light propagating through their systems is either totally spatially incoherent or coherent.

CLEO show to move to June in 2013

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:16:00 GMT

Washington, DC--Next year's Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), held annually in San Jose, CA, will take place in June rather than its usual May, moving to June 9–14, 2013.

Ghent University and Imec release IPKISS design software for integrated photonics

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:54:00 GMT

Brussels, Belgium--Ghent University and Imec have launched an open-source photonics software platform called IPKISS, which is a generic and modular software framework for parametric design of photonic integrated components and circuits.

Beam profiler from Ophir Photonics supports the company's laser power meters

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:57:00 GMT

Version 5.7 of BeamGage laser beam analysis software adds advanced image processing features, including fast, off-axis correction of distorted beam images.

Optical design software from Radiant Zemax offers reverse ray tracing

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:43:00 GMT

Zemax 12 optical and illumination design is available in SE, EE, and IE editions, with new lens design capabilities.

Laser-fused dentures now half the cost of milled versions

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Lichtenfels, Germany--Laser cusing or fusing techniques are being used to create dentures at half the cost of milled versions.

Comsol opens new Berlin office

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:10:00 GMT

Burlington, MA--Comsol has opened a new technical sales and support office in the center of Berlin, as the area is home to research institutes such as Fraunhofer, Leibniz, Max Planck, and the scientific, technical, and biomedical research centers of the Helmholtz Association.

FEI workflow software works with any light microscope

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:25:00 GMT

MAPS (Modular Automated Processing System) provides a correlative workflow that lets researchers see both large-scale context and small-scale detail in one overview.

BioPhotonic Solutions wins 2012 CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Washington, DC--BioPhotonic Solutions is the winner of this year's CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award.

OPTICAL DESIGN: Free-form optics enable lightweight head-mounted displays

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Free-form optics tiling can potentially overcome the invariant on the field of view and the resolution in a head-mounted display, and enable the design and development of lightweight and high-performance head-mounted displays.

Nanoparticle tracking analysis characterizes self-assembled nanomotors

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:06:00 GMT

Salisbury, England--Radboud University Nijmegen is applying nanoparticle tracking analysis from NanoSight for the characterization of self-assembled nanomotors.

Ophir Photonics app for Android displays laser measurement data

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:14:00 GMT

The Quasar app for Android smartphones and tablets displays laser meter data when connected to the company's Quasar wireless power and energy meter via Bluetooth.

OPTICAL DESIGN: Free-form optics enable lightweight, high-performance head-mounted displays

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Silicon photonics maker Lightwire to be acquired by Cisco

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:35:00 GMT

SAN JOSE, CA--Cisco says it is buying privately held Lightwire, which manufactures CMOS-based optical interconnects for high-speed networking applications.

Lithography mask-aligner tools now paired with simulation software

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:23:00 GMT

Garching, Germany--A new cooperation agreement pairs SUSS MicroTec lithography mask aligner exposure optics tools with Layout LAB simulation software from GenISys GmbH.

ASI, 89 North, Berliner Glas, Goodrich ISR, and Insight light up the Photonics West show floor (VIDEO)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:29:00 GMT

San Francisco, CA--Laser Focus World attempted to capture the essence of some of the best showings on both the BiOS and Photonics West 2012 exhibit floors.

Integrated GRIN lens could couple light efficiently into silicon photonic circuits

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:06:00 GMT

Singapore--Qian Wang and his group at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) Data Storage Institute have developed a graded-refractive-index (GRIN) lens that can be directly integrated on a silicon chip at the end of an optical waveguide, serving as a highly efficient coupler between the waveguide and a standard single-mode fiber (SMF).

Algorithm is faster than FFT for all sparse signals

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:03:00 GMT

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (Cambridge, MA) have developed two algorithms that are faster than the fast Fourier transform (FFT) for all sparse signals.