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Upgrade Your Illumination Optics Designs
LightTools enables you to quickly create illumination designs that work right the first try, reducing prototype iterations. Increase your productivity and decrease your time to market using LightTools' intelligent, easy-to-use tools.
Freeform Optical Design
Interoperability With CODE V
Be Quicker and More Productive
LightTools' optimization tool helps you quickly find the best design solution. Focus more on your design and less on setup and boost productivity thanks to LightTools' easy-to-learn, intuitive interface.
Key Features
- Sophisticated solid modeling with full optical accuracy
- State-of-the-art ray tracing speed, with full user control of accuracy and resolution requirements
- Create a light source from any geometric model, for unlimited flexibility to create custom sources
- Application-specific utilities to help you quickly build a complete model
- Extensive source and materials libraries, including LEDs and BSDF measurements
- Robust data exchange support for mechanical CAD data
- Interactive, dynamic link with SOLIDWORKS
- Multiple immersion for modeling the embedded phosphor in an encapsulated LED
- Full integration with LightTools 3D solid modeling ensures that the optimizer delivers practical, realistic solutions that yield the best possible system performance, in a fraction of the time it would take to accomplish manually
- Backlight Pattern Optimization for automatic design of backlight extraction patterns for LCDs, cell phone key pads, and automotive instrument clusters
- LightTools’ interactive user interface is easy to learn and includes many features to boost your productivity as you create and modify illumination system elements.
- Angular and spatial luminance analysis
- Simulations of real-world conditions, including surface effects like polarization, scatter, reflection, refraction, and the performance of thin film coatings. Material effects such as dispersion, volumetric absorption, volume scattering, and color filtering can also be included.
- Fast and robust forward and backward Monte Carlo ray tracing
- Get accurate, fast predictions of your illumination system’s color performance.
- High-fidelity transfer of models from CODE V for illumination, ghost image, and stray light analysis
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CO-SIMULATION
Nanoscale co-simulation
Use the industry's widest portfolio of highly accurate algorithms for rapid virtual prototyping of next-gen illumination and display technologies.
The Best Support in the Industry
Our customer success team is anchored by experienced optical engineers who are experts on LightTools. If you ever need help, our team is available, along with comprehensive documentation, tutorials, FAQs, and more.
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Increasing Process Efficiency: A Look at the New Features in the Latest Release of LightTools
The latest version of LightTools provides an array of innovative features and enhancements tailored to improve the user experience and advance the software's overall performance.
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Why Choose LightTools?
If the performance or cost of your illumination system is critical to the success of your products, then you can depend on LightTools illumination design software.
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