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Smart Phone Objective Highly miniaturized optical system with steep aspheres for the application in smartphones.


Smart Phone Objective

Smart Phone Objective Highly miniaturized optical system with steep aspheres for the application in smartphones.

AR Freeform Prism AR Freeform Prism using three Freeform Surfaces for the Prism and one for the Corrector.


AR Freeform Prism

AR Freeform Prism AR Freeform Prism using three Freeform Surfaces for the Prism and one for the Corrector.

Head-Up-Display for Automotive Off-axis Head-Up-Display for Automotive.


Head-Up-Display for Automotive

Head-Up-Display for Automotive Off-axis Head-Up-Display for Automotive.

Stereo Lens Stereoscopic system with two sequential raytracing paths for the application in a stereoscopic microscope.


Stereo Lens

Stereo Lens Stereoscopic system with two sequential raytracing paths for the application in a stereoscopic microscope.

Surface Form Stack Ability Showcase of a selection of some basic surface form types that can be combined to generate a wide range of surfaces.


Surface Form Stack Ability

Surface Form Stack Ability Showcase of a selection of some basic surface form types that can be combined to generate a wide range of surfaces.

Tele Photo Objective Classical tele-photo type camera lens.


Tele Photo Objective

Tele Photo Objective Classical tele-photo type camera lens.

Polarization Polarization raytracing analysis to visualize the polarization state of linear polarized light after passing a lens system.


Polarization

Polarization Polarization raytracing analysis to visualize the polarization state of linear polarized light after passing a lens system.

Mechanics Integration for Telescope Newton type telescope design showing the combined opto-mechanical system capability of Quadoa®.


Mechanics Integration for Telescope

Mechanics Integration for Telescope Newton type telescope design showing the combined opto-mechanical system capability of Quadoa®.

Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer Sequential ghost reflex analysis performed on an imaging system to estimate and optimize the impact of the reflexes on the image quality.


Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer

Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer Sequential ghost reflex analysis performed on an imaging system to estimate and optimize the impact of the reflexes on the image quality.

Tessar Classical Tessar type camera lens with some analysis plots like Seidel and chromatic aberration analysis.


Tessar

Tessar Classical Tessar type camera lens with some analysis plots like Seidel and chromatic aberration analysis.

Zoom Lens System Zoom lens design with two moving lens assemblies.


Zoom Lens System

Zoom Lens System Zoom lens design with two moving lens assemblies.

Siemens Star Imaging of a Siemens Star pattern through optical system showing the image sharpness under the influence of defocus and coma.


Siemens Star

Siemens Star Imaging of a Siemens Star pattern through optical system showing the image sharpness under the influence of defocus and coma.

Axicon Axicon lens system to generate an annular intensity distribution.


Axicon

Axicon Axicon lens system to generate an annular intensity distribution.

Beam Combiner Micro lens array that combines the output of an array of laser emitters onto a single focal point.


Beam Combiner

Beam Combiner Micro lens array that combines the output of an array of laser emitters onto a single focal point.

Camera Lens TV-Camera lens system.


Camera Lens

Camera Lens TV-Camera lens system.

Eye Piece Eye piece for the usage in a telescope system for the observation of astronomical objects.


Eye Piece

Eye Piece Eye piece for the usage in a telescope system for the observation of astronomical objects.

Stereograph Eye Pieces Stereographic optical system for the 3D-Visualization of images.


Stereograph Eye Pieces

Stereograph Eye Pieces Stereographic optical system for the 3D-Visualization of images.

Free Form Telescope Compact folded free-form mirror telescope.


Free Form Telescope

Free Form Telescope Compact folded free-form mirror telescope.

Fish Eye Objective Camera lens with a wide field of view.


Fish Eye Objective

Fish Eye Objective Camera lens with a wide field of view.

Surface Form Stack Ability Model to showcase the wide range of possible surface type combinations by stacking of surface shapes and properties.


Surface Form Stack Ability

Surface Form Stack Ability Model to showcase the wide range of possible surface type combinations by stacking of surface shapes and properties.

Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer Ghost reflex analysis to simulate the size and positions of ghost reflection inside an interferometric lens for the measurement of surface shapes.


Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer

Integrated Live Ghost Analyzer Ghost reflex analysis to simulate the size and positions of ghost reflection inside an interferometric lens for the measurement of surface shapes.

Fizeau Interferometer Interferometer for the measurement of surface deviations that uses two sequential raytraces - one for the test arm and one for the reference arm.


Fizeau Interferometer

Fizeau Interferometer Interferometer for the measurement of surface deviations that uses two sequential raytraces - one for the test arm and one for the reference arm.

Lens Catalog The lens catalog included in Quadoa® provides a wide range of stock lenses available from the most common manufacturers.


Lens Catalog

Lens Catalog The lens catalog included in Quadoa® provides a wide range of stock lenses available from the most common manufacturers.

Material Catalog with Abbe Diagram The material catalog included in Quadoa® includes data of any common glass types as well as polymers that are typically used for optical components.


Material Catalog with Abbe Diagram

Material Catalog with Abbe Diagram The material catalog included in Quadoa® includes data of any common glass types as well as polymers that are typically used for optical components.

Material Catalog The material catalog included in Quadoa® includes data of any common glass types as well as polymers that are typically used for optical components.


Material Catalog

Material Catalog The material catalog included in Quadoa® includes data of any common glass types as well as polymers that are typically used for optical components.

Objective Mounting Mechanical mounting for a lens imported into Quadoa® to check for any unintended ray-mechanics intersections.


Objective Mounting

Objective Mounting Mechanical mounting for a lens imported into Quadoa® to check for any unintended ray-mechanics intersections.

Mechanics Intersection Analyzer Detection of intersections between mechanics and rays at mirror-clamps holding an parabolic mirror.


Mechanics Intersection Analyzer

Mechanics Intersection Analyzer Detection of intersections between mechanics and rays at mirror-clamps holding an parabolic mirror.

Interactive 3D Menu The right click menu inside the 3D-View can be used to interactively edit, position, flip or move lenses.


Interactive 3D Menu

Interactive 3D Menu The right click menu inside the 3D-View can be used to interactively edit, position, flip or move lenses.

Microscope Objective Aberration analysis for a microscope-objective.


Microscope Objective

Microscope Objective Aberration analysis for a microscope-objective.

Microscope Objective Analysing the impact of lens misalignment on the point spread function for a highly corrected microscope lens system.


Microscope Objective

Microscope Objective Analysing the impact of lens misalignment on the point spread function for a highly corrected microscope lens system.

Mirror Microscope Microscope objective design using mirrors.


Mirror Microscope

Mirror Microscope Microscope objective design using mirrors.

Multiconfiguration Scanning mirror system to sequentially image a surface for quality control in pcb fabrication.


Multiconfiguration

Multiconfiguration Scanning mirror system to sequentially image a surface for quality control in pcb fabrication.

Off-Axis Telescope Compact mirror telescope design that uses the same component as primary and tertiary mirror which simplifies the alignment of the components.


Off-Axis Telescope

Off-Axis Telescope Compact mirror telescope design that uses the same component as primary and tertiary mirror which simplifies the alignment of the components.

Mach Zehnder Phase Shifting Interferometer Simulation of interferograms for the evaluation of phase shifting algorithms.


Mach Zehnder Phase Shifting Interferometer

Mach Zehnder Phase Shifting Interferometer Simulation of interferograms for the evaluation of phase shifting algorithms.

Projector Cinematic projection lens with a large window serving as thermal isolator for the lightsource.


Projector

Projector Cinematic projection lens with a large window serving as thermal isolator for the lightsource.

Point Spread Function Analysis of the point spread function for a simple aspheric lens under the influence of misalignment.


Point Spread Function

Point Spread Function Analysis of the point spread function for a simple aspheric lens under the influence of misalignment.

Python Interface Python script to calculate and plot the point spread function of a lens for a large set of parameters.


Python Interface

Python Interface Python script to calculate and plot the point spread function of a lens for a large set of parameters.

Quadoa® feature highlights The intention of Quadoa® was to create a modern optical design software to provide a solution for the fast growing and rapidly developing optical market and especially to provide a software solution which can keep up with modern complex systems. Quadoa® Optical CAD is a state of the art optical design software with a vast range of features and functions for the complete prototyping process of modern optical systems. The feaure highlights listed below should only abstract the comprehensive design capability of Quadoa®. If you have specific questions about a specific design capability please contact the Quadoa® support. Open Feature List (PDF)

Lens Data

3D CAD Positioning

Real World Elements

Assembly arrangement

Lens Catalog with Filter Function

Lens Wizard

Surface Stack Ability: Freeforms and User Defined Forms by combining Surface Forms

Surface Types: Sphere, Plane, Asphere, Off-Axis, Axicon, Cylinder, Biconic, Cosine, Periodic Rotation, Gauss

Polynomial Form: Zernike, Zernike Fringe, Polynomial

Phases: Grating, Radial, Axial, Zernike, Zernike Fringe, Polynomial

Apertures: Circular, Rectangular, Elliptic, Annular

Obscuration: Circular, Rectangluar, Elliptic

Operators: Form Array, Fresnel, Phase Array

XYZ-Coordinate System / Easy Positioning

Absolute and Relative Coordinates

Drag & Drop of Elements

Easy drop down handling

3D Preview of Lens Design

Glass Catalogs with Filter Function

Coatings (Ideal VR, Ideal Mirror, Beam Splitter, Wavelength Dependant)

Analysis Plots

Ray Distribution (Spot Diagram, Field vs. Wavelength, Config vs. Field, Footprint Diagram, Ghost Diagram)

Aberrations (OPD Fan Plot, Transverse Ray Function)

Distortion (1D, 2D, Petzval Curvature 1D)

Wavefront (Falsecolor, Fringes, Gradient, Zernike)

Interferogram (Fringes, Unwrapped)

Vignetting over Field

Image Analysis (Incoherent, Coherent, Ghost)

Point Spread Function (FFT PSF, Huygens PSF, Geometrical PSF)

Modulation Transfer Function (FFT MTF, Huygens MTF, Geometrical MTF)

Surface Analysis (Form, Form Gradient, Phase, Phase Gradient)

Plot Settings incl. easy drop down selection

Ghost Analysis Tools

Live Ghost Analysis Tools (Generate Ghosts analysis parallel to design process within seconds)

Analysis of Ghost Impact on Camera

Diffractive Ghosts for Computer Generated Holograms

Total Flux Analysis

Total Illuminance Analysis

Ghosts inside same data structure

Real Time Tools

Live Ghost Analysis: During the optical design process the ghost wizards implemented in Quadoa® Optical CAD allow the automated generation of ghost sequences for any of the defined sequences in your system within seconds

Live Tolerancing: Perform a Tolerance Analysis at any time during design process to avoid the iteration process after the design process

Live Mechanics Analyzer: Integrated live Mechancis Analyzer to analyze influence of mechanical parts on optical system performance

Technical Drawing

Lens Drawing ISO 10110 Export (PDF)

Scripting Programming Interfaces

MATLAB®

Python

C++ SDK

System Handling

3D View (Create multiple 3D System Views to analyse system with different configurations at a time)

3D CAD Coordinate System (Simple system construction with CAD Interface)

Multi-Configuration (Unlimited number of Multi Configurations incl. Math Expression)

Slider Interface for stepless Parameter Values or Math Expression Input

Drag & Drop of elements

Easy drop down menu handling

System Parameters

Temperature Influence Calculation

Pressure Influence Calculation

Light Sequence

Multi-Sequence Path Definition (unlimited)

User Defined Sequence

Easy Light Path Definition

Unlimited Sequence Fields

Aperture Types (Obj. Space, From Stop, Entrane Pupil, None)

Field Type (Angle, Image Height)

OPD Reference (EP, Absolute over Cam, Absolute over EP)

Source Types (Point Source, Plane Wavefront, Wavefromt from Surface)

Aperture Radius

Source Power Settings

Unlimited Number of Wavelengths

Distribution Types

Tilf of Field

Weight Fields separately

Vignetting of Field

Optimization

Local Optimization

Extended Optimization

Global Optimization

Material Substitution

Lagrange Multiplier Constraints

Soft Constraints

Merit Function for different sequences (unlimited)

Unlimited Ray Trace Optimizations

Optimization Goals:

Aberrations: Spot Radius RMS, Spot Radius PV, Spot Size 1D RMS, Wavefront RMS, Wavefront PV, Lateral Chromatic Aberration, Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration, Field Curvature, Distortion, Zernike, Tilt, Defocus, Astigmatism, Coma, Spherical Aberration

Optical Properties: Image Space NA, Object Space NA, Image Space F#, Object Space F#, Effective Focal Length, Entrance Pupil Position, Entrance Pupil Radius, Exit Pupil Position, Exit Pupil Radius, Maginifation, Angular Magnification, Chief Ray Position, Spot

Ray Properties: Chief Ray Incident Angle, Chief Ray Incident Direction Angle, Chief Ray Exist Angle, Chief Ray Exist Direction Angle, Ray Incident Angle RMS, Ray Incident Angle MAX, Ray Exit Angle RMS, Ray Exit Angle Max, Ray Refraction Angle RMS, Ray Refraction Angle MAX, Absolute OPL

Element Properties: Center Thickness, Edge Thicknes, Center Air Gap, Edge Air Gap, Aperture Radius, Surface Sag, Aspheric Departure, Refractive Index, Abbe Number

Tolerancing

Tolerancing Wizard for Easy Tolerancing

Element Tolerances

Surface Tolerances

Assembly Tolerances

Compensators

Tolerance Simulations (Sensitivity Analysis, Inverse Analysis, Monte-Carlo Simulation)

Tolerance Weights

Specific ID Tolerancing (specify tolerances due to production process or to producer tolerances)

Realistic Tolerancing (Tolerance single elements without affecting each other)

Tolerancing with Multiple Merit Functions

Polarization Raytracing

CAD and Mechanics Integration

Import CAD Data (STEP, STL, IGES)

Export CAD Data (STEP, STL, IGES)

CAD Primitivs Creator

Integrated CAD Mechanics Analyzer (Analyze directly inside Quadoa® for intersection between Mechanics and Optical Rays)

CAD Handling (XYZ-Coordinate System for Position and Rotation)

Exchange File Formats and Data

Import External File Formats (*.ZMX *.SEQ)

Import CAD Data (STEP, IGES, STL)

Export CAD DATA (STEP, IGES, STL)

Export Point Cloud

3D View Image (Export of 3D System as PNG)


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