From complex optical systems to more basic machine integration, our built-in AI makes optical engineering more intuitive and faster. Just prompt, review and generate!
From full manual control to fully automated design.
Design and analyze from scratch, exactly like any optical CAD tool — full control over every surface, material and configuration.
From a specification to a working approximate design in about 5 minutes. Describe your target; get a starting point ready to refine.
Describe your specification and let the platform design end-to-end — 90 minutes to 6 hours of autonomous work delivers a finished, optimized design, no human in the loop.
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Both AI capabilities measured on real optical specifications, with every result published.
From a specification to a finished, optimised lens, with no human in the loop.
Optical proximity: how close the finished design's image comes to the sharpness the specification asks for. Realism: how buildable it is (tolerances, thicknesses, catalogue glasses, number of lenses). Both read out of 100, where 100 means the target is fully met; the score is their average.
More detailsA starting design for each specification in about 5 minutes, measured across six spectral bands, from ultraviolet to thermal infrared.
specifications
A starting point is the raw design, before any optimisation. It reaches its target only if it passes all eight checks of the specification at once: sharpness at the centre and edge of the field, wavefront, colour, focal length, aperture, vignetting and manufacturability. One failed check is enough to count it as a miss.
More detailsThe right fit for every environment
Full platform in the cloud with native parallelism — the equivalent of 1,000 CPUs at your fingertips. No infrastructure to manage, no limits.
Deploy on your intranet with full data sovereignty. Distributed compute management across your infrastructure — same power, your rules.
Install on a dedicated machine and work anywhere — even offline. Full simulation capabilities, completely autonomous.*
*AI capabilities may vary depending on local hardware specifications.
Sequential, non-sequential and Gaussian physics — under one roof.
Surface-by-surface tracing for imaging optics — lenses, objectives, telescopes.
Free-propagation tracing for illumination, stray light, ghost analysis and complex geometries.
Laser beam propagation — waist, divergence, Rayleigh range, ABCD and diffraction.