Optical Research Associates releases CODE V 10.2

CODE V® 10.2, the newest release of the premier optical design software from Optical Research Associates (ORA®), delivers a number of enhancements that simplify its use and provide greater flexibility for users. For example, CODE V 10.2 introduces improved ray tracing algorithms that increase robustness when designing optical systems with extreme aspheres, hyper-hemispherical fields of view (fisheye lenses), and highly tilted components. Most importantly, these new algorithms maintain the fast ray tracing speeds for which CODE V is well known. Plus, custom macro writing is simplified in CODE V 10.2, which now empowers users to specify any appropriate external program as the default text editor.

CODE V 10.2 delivers expanded graphical output options, including the use of smarter defaults for producing optical system drawings with the View Lens feature. File conversion enhancements allow all CODE V plots to be directly saved in a number of common graphics file formats (including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF), saving users time when creating system images for presentations or further analysis.

CODE V data display is improved with an updated status bar, which can show substantially more user-selected system parameters than in the past. Additionally, a brief description of each item in the status bar is shown on mouseover, which is displayed in the language you have selected for CODE V operation. The tabular listing of surface-by-surface transmission values (Transmission Analysis feature) has been expanded to explicitly list Fresnel losses, absorption, diffraction efficiency and filter interferograms, thus allowing users to more clearly identify individual transmission contributions.

CODE V 10.2 also makes solving tolerancing problems even easier with an expanded range of built-in performance metrics. These metrics can be used as is or customized, providing users with unlimited flexibility for evaluating system performance and manufacturability.