PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs. Design complex optical systems for a wide range of applications with advanced features, including structural and thermal analysis.
Product Features
Ray Tracing
Employs advanced ray tracing algorithms to simulate the behavior of light in optical systems, allowing engineers to analyze and optimize the performance of
lenses, mirrors, and other optical components.
Lens Design
Facilitates the design of complex optical systems, including the optimization of lens shapes, materials, and coatings to achieve desired imaging characteristics.
Tolerance Analysis
Engineers can perform tolerance analysis to assess the impact of manufacturing
variations on optical system performance, helping to ensure designs are robust and manufacturable.
Optimization
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio includes optimization tools to adjust design parameters automatically to meet specified performance criteria, helping engineers find the best solution for their optical systems.
Interoperability
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio supports interoperability with other engineering tools, allowing seamless integration into the overall product design and development process.
Multiphysics Simulation
Simulate multiple physics phenomena simultaneously, such as thermal effects on
optics, providing a more comprehensive understanding of real- world performance.
User-friendly interface
A user-friendly interface with a wide range of tools, wizards, and visualizations to assist engineers in the design and analysis process.
MODULES
Achieve on-time, on-budget optical design cycles
Discover new ways to turn innovative ideas into products that shape the world. OpticStudio is the standard for optical, illumination, and laser system design in leading companies throughout the optics industry and at universities around the world.
Key Features
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is the solution for designing components and subassemblies.
Ray Tracing
Lens Design
Tolerance Analysis
Optimization
Interoperability
Get everything you need to simulate, optimize, and tolerance your optical designs
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio is the solution for designing components and subassemblies within complex, high-precision optical systems. Such systems address a variety of applications across several high-growth industries
Quick Specs
Industry-leading optical system design
Intuitive, easy-to-use UI
Dynamic CAD integrations (Premium)
STAR-enabled STOP analysis (Enterprise)
Robust, powerful ray tracing
Documentation and Reporting
Support and Training
Advanced Optimization Algorithms
What’s New
Unified Multiphysics – Stress Birefringence in STAR
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio’s STAR Stress Birefringence tool evaluates mechanical stress effects on optical materials, offering stress dataset imports, off-axis field support, and detailed visualization. It optimizes designs, enhances manufacturing reliability, and ensures performance in industries like automotive, aerospace, defense, and consumer electronics under diverse conditions.
Design for Manufacture – Mechanical Pivot Points
The Mechanical Pivot Point (MPVT) operand simplifies tolerance simulations by defining and visualizing mechanical pivot points in optical systems. This feature addresses the time-consuming and error-prone manual steps to set up optomechanical tolerance simulations. Key capabilities include one-click Monte Carlo file generation and visualization tools.
Pervasive Insights – Dark Theme
This new dark theme reflects Ansys Zemax OpticStudio’s focus on user-centric design, providing improved comfort, enhanced productivity, and versatile usability. Offering an interface for individual preferences and working environments with a dark color palette optimized for low-light conditions, reducing eye strain and conserving battery life on portable devices.
Applications
Autonomous Sensor Development
Comprehensive autonomous vehicle sensor simulation capability that includes lidar, radar, and camera design and development.
Autonomous System Validation
Model-based safety and cybersecurity solutions accelerate autonomous system development and certification.
Cardiovascular
Rapid and reliable innovation and testing of new cardiovascular medical devices and implants.
FAQ
How can I learn Ansys Zemax OpticStudio?
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio offers a variety of learning options.
The extensive knowledge base offers a wide range of tutorials from getting started to system-level how-to articles.
Our Zemax users community is also useful to engage with power users and learn tips and tricks.
The Ansys Learning Hub provides self-paced video courses that allow you to learn Ansys Zemax OpticStudio.
How to analyze the impact of external loads on optical designs ?
The STAR Multiphysics tools enable customers to do both STOP analysis (Structural, Thermal, Optical Performance) and Ansys-exclusive SOFT analysis (Structural Optical Fluids Thermal). Ansys Zemax OpticStudio allows you to easily and accurately load the needed data from external solvers. Users can then assess system performance with structural, optical, fluids, and thermal effects simultaneously.
How to install/download Ansys OpticStudio?
Current customers can download Ansys Zemax OpticStudio from the Download Center in the Ansys Customer Portal. For those who are not current customers but are interested in trying OpticStudio, Ansys offers a free trial. It comes with sample files and design templates. Our extensive knowledge base offers a wide range of tutorials, from getting started to system-level how-to articles.
How to model a metasurface in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio?
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio can use an ideal phase profile to model the metasurface and then optimize it using ray tracing capabilities. Ansys Lumerical can then quickly generate its response on the nano-structure level. Based on this information, the metalens can then be accurately set in OpticStudio on a user-defined surface. All ray-based tools are available to assess the performances of your system.
How to tolerance freeform surfaces for surface irregularities?
The advanced tolerancing tools from Ansys Zemax OpticStudio include an easy-to-use surface irregularities option. It leverages the composite surface capabilities and uses Zernike sag data to model the surface irregularities, including for complex base shapes such as aspherical or many types of freeform surfaces. All other manufacturing tolerances can be added in order to assess your as-built performance yield.
