Keysight Optical Simulation Solutions: Innovation in Optical Design

Leveraging Keysight’s portfolio of optical and photonic design and simulation software one can accurately model all facets of an optical system. These advanced and interactive tools enable design of complex imaging systems, illumination devices, automotive lighting systems and photonic devices.

Achieve Optical Innovation with Keysight’s Optical Design Engineering software

LucidShape: Comprehensive automotive lighting solution

The LucidShape product family is a reliable engineering solution for design, simulation, visualization and validation of automotive lighting systems.

It includes modules to streamline shape creation and simulation of exterior automotive lighting systems.

• Calculates optical geometries and creates optics based on freeform design
• Simulate light sources, surfaces, materials, and sensors.
• Use physics-based visualization tools for photorealistic images and simulations.
• Automatic light guide construction, ray tracing, analysis and optimization tools.

Fig.1: Freeform Macrofocal Reflector and it’s corresponding spread distribution in LucidShape.

LucidDrive, a night driving simulator generates realistic beam pattern evaluations for vehicle headlamps to ensure optimal performance in real-world conditions. Helps assess adaptive front lighting systems like Pixel and Matrix beam headlamps by simulating their response to dynamic traffic conditions.

Fig.2: Matrix headlamp validation for traffic scenarios in LucidDrive, night driving simulator.

LightTools: Illumination Design Software

This 3D design software supports virtual prototyping, simulation, optimization and photorealistic rendering of illumination applications including LEDs, light guides for ambient lighting and backlit display systems (AR/VR devices).

It offers superior non-sequential ray tracing and advanced material libraries for modelling various surfaces as some of its key capabilities for designing backlight display systems, digital projectors, luminaires and ambient lighting components.

Fig.3: 3D modelling and photorealistic rendering of various surfaces under illumination as simulated in LightTools.

CODE V: Imaging System Design

Development of imaging systems including photographic, mobile camera and zoom lens, as well as free space photonic devices can be accelerated with CODE V’s advanced optimizing and tolerancing features.

• Visualize optical system performance with image simulation.
• Speed time to market with utilities like glass expert and asphere expert.
• Multi-environment coupling model’s substrate changes due to temperature, pressure and mounting variations.

Fig.4: 2D schematic and 3D rendering of a lens with paraxial ray trace as seen in CODE V.

RSoft: Photonic Device Design

Comprises a wide portfolio of simulators and optimizers for active and passive photonic devices such as lasers, sensors and many more.

• FulWave FDTD – study propagation of light in structures such as waveguides
• DiffractMOD – tool for diffractive structures like DOE, photonic crystals
• BandSOLVE – automates the modeling and calculation of photonic band structures
• LaserMOD – simulates the optical, electronic and thermal properties of semiconductor lasers.

Optical Scattering Measurement Instruments

 Quickly and accurately quantify the light propagated from any surface or material depending on the angle of incidence, wavelengths, polarization, and observation angle. Helps identify imperfections in optical surfaces or light reflections off mechanical elements.

• Mini Diff V2 – portable device that measures BRDF and BTDF with fixed AOI.
• Mini Diff VPro – provides BRDF, BTDF and TIS Measurements with choice of AOI.
• TIS Pro – features an integrated sphere and spectral detector to measure reflectance, transmittance and absorption.

Fig.5: Mini Diff V2 device for measuring the BRDF and BTDF or various surfaces based on AOI

Maximize your design potential and bring concepts to reality by leveraging Keysight’s end-to-end optical design and virtual prototyping suite. Model light propagation with precision ensuring your innovations are as accurate as they are dazzling.