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photopia
optical design software

Use Photopia to design and analyize non-imaging and illumination optical systems directly in SOLIDWORKS and Rhinoceros

We've provided optical design software and optical design consulting services for over 30 years.

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Photopia Optical Design Software

Fully integrated into SOLIDWORKS or Rhinoceros, Photopia allows you to design and simulate non-imaging optical systems.

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Optical Consulting Services

We'll tackle your most challenging optical design projects.

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Lamp and Material Modeling

Optical characterization of lamps and materials for use in raytracing software.

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Optical consulting services.

Expert consulting from the creators of Photopia, the leading optical design software.

300 new lamps, 1200 total

35 new materials, 1200 total

News

Software Updates

August 25 2020

photopia 2020.1 Released

A new online licensing system makes license sharing and installtion quick and easy, along with many updates related to UV applications, like Fluence, and UV library content.

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Software Support

August 25 2021

Laser Aiming Tutorial

Helpful tips for using on laser lamp modeling for aiming a TIR collimator.

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February 25 2019

Non-Standard Luminous Shapes

We have published a white paper on non-standard luminous shapes which shows how to best handle large luminaires like open rings or serpentine linear shapes since the standard IES file format has limited ability to define such shapes.

View the White Paper

Library Updates

August 25 2021

August 2020 Update

Our August Library Update included a wide range of UV lamps and materials, including LEDs from Crystal IS and Luminus and T5s from Philips as well as UV materials from Kopp, Alanod and Almeco.

There was also a range of human skin properties, used for optical sensing applications of pulse and oxygen saturation.

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Events

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New York, NY

October 27-29, 2021

Booth 1039