pab optical analysis and ray-tracing

Generally, optical ray-tracing is based on geometrical optics. It works for practically all reflective (e.g. metal) or transmitting (eg. frosted glass) materials. It offers the power of comparing ideal surface characteristics with actual material data and thereby supports finding an optimal combination of surface shapes and materials. It is a bread\&butter tool to achieve advanced and economically sound products with the desired optical feature.

Our ray-tracing services offer the following advantages:

• parallel raytracing on Linux servers get your results faster
• combination of optimizing methods with ray tracing result in optimized surface shapes
• import of complex CAD geometry, so leave the usual conversion problems of 3D data sets to us
• ray visualization and quantitative radiometric results are based on the same 3D model

Example: reflective metal duct

ray tracing and quantitative results

CAD geometry	parallel input rays, visualization		light distribution behind element (aperture angle of incident light cone: 10°)
	perspective view	orthogonal view	irradiance at exit aperture	radiance (far field)