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VirtualLab Fusion V7.4

VirtualLab Fusion Technology

One Platform – Many Solvers

Following the field tracing concept, in VirtualLab Fusion we connect various modeling technologies.
The six basic ideas on how to achieve fast simulations in physical opticse are:

    • Instead of just one, we use an arsenal of rigorous and approximated field solvers.
    • VirtualLab Fusion constitutes a platform for connecting field solvers by a unique operator and channel concept.
    • Field solvers work in different domains. We use the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and in-house developed Fourier transform algorithms in order to overcome sampling issues of the FFT.
    • We consequently apply pointwise instead of integral operations wherever possible.
    • Partially coherent and pulsed light fields are represented by a suitable source mode decomposition.
    • Full access to electromagnetic fields enables evaluation of any detector function which might be of concern in optics modeling, including radiometric and photometric data.

All the different technologies are implemented in one single software platform – VirtualLab Fusion – where they work smoothly together.

Light Shaping

VirtualLab Fusion supports light shaping by freeform surfaces, diffractive beam splitters and pattern generators, diffusers, and general arrays of micro-optical components, including, but not limited to, micro-lens arrays.

VirtualLab Fusion enables the design and the simulation of illumination systems for shaping, splitting, diffusing and homogenization of both laser and LED light. The emphasis of the software package is on the use of lens arrays, diffractive optical elements and cell arrays consisting of gratings, mirrors and prisms. For the designed components, fabrication data can be exported in several formats including STL and GDSII; the interaction with SLMs is also supported. Fast physical optics simulation and optimization algorithms enable the design of these optical elements. The modeling takes into account diffraction, interference, polarization and degree of coherence.

7.1 Handling
• The Optical Setup Tool Insert Element now asks for the optical channel to which the element shall be
added.
7.2 Import & Export
• Harmonic Fields can now be exported to 16 bit gray scale images. This increases the number of possible
gray scale values to 65 536 instead of only 256.
• 16 bit gray scale images can now be imported into Harmonic Fields and Data Arrays.
• You can now export single members of a Harmonic Fields Set into an image.
• 1D HFS are now exported as 1D bitmaps to ease import into other programs.
7.3 Optimization
Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm available for Parametric Optimization.
7.4 Parameter Run
• New Combined Output to generate a two-dimensional data array out of 1D data arrays.
• New Combined Output to generate a two-dimensional Chromatic Fields Set out of 1D Chromatic Fields
Sets.
7.5 Performance
• Optimized automatic sampling for 2nd Generation Field Tracing.
• Certain IFTA optimizations now run 20 % faster than in VirtualLab Fusion 7.3.
• The generation of Parameter Runs and Parametric Optimizations with many parameters is now substantially faster.
7.6 Programming
• Added stacks as Global Parameters for the Programmable Function.
• Added data array as Global Parameter for the Programmable (Pulse) Spectrum

Product: VirtualLab Fusion V7.4
Version: 7.4
Supported Architectures: x64
Language: English
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 1DVD

 

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