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New TracePro 7.0 Webinar 29th June

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:21:32 +0000

An Introduction to the new features in TracePro 7.0

Michael Gauvin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lambda Research Corporation, will introduce TracePro 7.0 with emphasis on the new interactive optimizer, multi-threaded capability and re-arrangeable system tree. The presentation will last 20-30 minutes ending with a 10-15 minute question and answer session.

In this webinar you will see:
• The latest features in TracePro 7.0
• An overview of the Interactive optimizer and other utilities
• An introduction to the new Multi-threaded raytrace with up to a 7X speed increase compared with TracePro 6.0

Who should attend:
Current and potential users of TracePro who would like to learn more about TracePro 7.0.

When:
2 sessions: Tuesday, June 29th – 10am EDT (3pm BST) and 4pm EDT (9pm BST)

Register for a session now by clicking a date below:

Tue, Jun 29, 2010 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT 3-4pm BST

Tue, Jun 29, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT 9-10pm BST

Once registered you will receive an email confirming your registration
with information you need to join the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

Optical Engineering and Design Meeting

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:52:18 +0000

Optical Engineering & Design
- Fundamentals & Innovations

Date: Thursday 4th November 2010
Venue: The International Centre, St Quentin Gate, Telford TF3 4JH
AN EVENT AT PHOTONEX 2010 · WWW.PHOTONEX.ORG

This meeting will be a forum for the exchange of ideas, for presentation of interesting applications and design solutions in the established market and for future optical engineering and design.
The committee intends to include presentations on applications, examples of problems solved and criteria for good design. Included will be a presentation on skills companies require of an optical designer and a really practical session on software tricks, methods and using macros in the UK’s most popular software packages.

We invite you to participate and to present your work and share your experience.

This meeting will comprise academic & industrial sessions and will be a mix of invited and contributed papers. We are calling for contributions in the following, though not exclusive, areas:

Control of flare • Design desensitisation • Design problems •
Designing for photolithography • Designing thin films • Lamp
optimisation • Laser basics • Lens technology • Manufacturability •
Micromachining • Optical imaging and illumination systems • Optical
schemes • Optical system analysis • Partial coherence •
Photovoltaics • Reflector design • Telescope design

For more information see the website

Lighting Design Software Suite

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:06:04 +0000

LITESTAR 10 is a suite of integrated program modules for the management of the lighting design process made up with the following modules:

Litecalc – lighting design and calculation (based on the new and powerful method of Photon Mapping which replaces the old Radiosity one), rendering and ray-tracing modules as well as 2D and 3D DXF files interface for the interiors and the exteriors (public areas, sports areas) as well as roads and tunnels.
Liswin – operative electronic catalog for luminaires and lamps
Lisman – specifications management module
Photowin – Photoview – photometry management module
Lisdat – catalog data management module
LisWeb – Liswin catalog viewer program in Internet

The program is available in 2 versions:

LITESTAR Open, freeware (please refer to Download)
LITESTAR Pro , the professional version you may activate after LITESTAR Open installation (License Purchase).

and in 21 languages: Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Semplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish.

LITESTAR 10 is a program that can be totally configured following the needs:

of the manufacturers with the closed and customizable configuration, limited to the single manufacturer’s data or shared with other manufacturers partecipating to the LITESTAR Project
of the market with the open configuration it is possible to input new catalog and photometric data into the program database freely, the only one of its kind, integrating the already available Data Plug-ins of more than 150 manufacturers.

New TracePro Solidworks Lighting design Webinar

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:38:55 +0000

An Introduction to the Updated TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks

Dave Jacobsen, Senior Applications Engineer for Lambda Research Corporation, will introduce the new, updated, and revised TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks. The presentation will last 20-30 minutes ending with a 10-15 minute question and answer session.

In this webinar you will:
• See the newest release of TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks
• Discover how the TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks can improve the integration of CAD modeling and optical analysis
• Learn how to speed your workflow using the TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks
• Find out how to get your own trial version of the TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks
• Get a sneak peek at what’s coming next for TracePro

Who should attend:
Current and potential users of TracePro who would like to learn more about the newest release of the TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks

When:
2 sessions: Wednesday May 5 – 10am EDT (3pm BST) and 4pm EDT (9pm BST)

Register for a session now by clicking a date below:

Wed, May 5, 2010 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

Wed, May 5, 2010 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Once registered you will receive an email confirming your registration
with information you need to join the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

Lighting Design Hardware

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:41 +0000

Hardware

T1 Goniophotometer	T2 Goniophotometer
T3 Goniophotometer	T4 Goniophotometer

Goniophotometers
Luxmeters

The Goniophotometer T1 with device to turn the light source is a highly precise photometer for the measurement of light distributions of luminaires and lamps.

The Goniophotometer T1 allows measurements either in the C-Gamma measuring system, typical for indoor and street lighting luminaires, or in the V-H (B-ß) one, typical for floodlights: so any kind of luminaire and lamp can be considered. Some sophisticated software features allow to convert one measurement from one system to the other.

Characteristics
The Goniophotometer T1 is realized in accordance with EN 13.032 Norm type 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, correponding to Recommendation CIE n.70 Chapt.5 Type 1 and 2 (Goniophotometer with Facility for Turning the Light Source).

Maximum dimensions of the luminaires to be measured:
- weight: kg 20
- dimensions: mm 1600×300x200.

The Goniophotometer T2, with device to turn the light source, is a highly precise photometer for the measurement of light distributions of luminaires and lamps.

The Goniophotometer T2 allows measurements either in the C-Gamma measuring system, typical for indoor and street lighting luminaires, or in the V-H (B-ß) one, typical for floodlights: so any kind of luminaire and lamp can be considered. Some sophisticated software features allow to convert one measurement from one system to the other.

Characteristics
The Goniophotometer T2 is realized in accordance with EN 13.032 Norm type 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, correponding to Recommendation CIE n.70 Chapt.5 Type 1 and 2 (Goniophotometer with Facility for Turning the Light Source).

Maximum dimensions of the luminaires to be measured:
- weight: kg 50
- dimensions: mm 2000×800x400.

The Goniophotometer T3 is a high precision and reliability photometer for measuring the distribution of luminous intensity of small scale lamps and luminaires, mainly LED ones.

Characteristics
The Goniophotometer T3 is realized in accordance with EN 13.032 Norm type 2.1, correponding to Recommendation CIE n.70 Chapt.6 Type 1 (Goniophotometer with Facility for Turning the Photometer Head).

Maximum dimensions of the luminaires and lamps to be measured:
- weight: kg 10
- dimensions: diameter mm 100, height mm 150.

The Mirror Goniophotometer T4 is a high precision and reliability photometer for measuring the distribution of luminous intensity of lamps and lighting fittings for interiors, floodlighting and roads.

The system is fully automatic and uses robot technology for effecting motion which allows the transmission of movement without chains, often the cause of undesired clearances. This characteristic makes it the first of its
kind worldwide.

The robot technology, along with high precision encoders and latest generation clearance-free reducers, guarantees perfect positioning with imperceptible vibrations.

The Goniophotometer T4 allows measurement according to systems:
- C-Gamma typical of interior and road luminaires (measurements according to CIE Recommendations 24 and 27)
- V-H (B-Beta) typical of floodlights (measurements according to CIE Recommendation 43)

Measurement is also possible on conical surfaces.

Characteristics
The Goniophotometer T4 is realized in accordance with EN
13.032 type 3.1, correponding to Recommendation CIE n.70 Chapt.7 (Mirror Goniophotometer).

Maximum dimensions of the luminaires to be measured:
- weight: kg 40
- dimensions: mm 2000×800x400.

Theory
A Mirror Goniophotometer T4 allows measurement of the luminaire in its normal functioning position that avoids lamps flux variations: this means that, for a luminaire for interiors, the luminous area is directed downwards and
remains in this position throughout measurement.

The only movements the luminaire makes are around its own vertical axis and the mirror.

The light emitted from the luminaire is reflected by a mirror placed in rotation around the horizontal rotation axis of the machine, the axis which corresponds to the luminous, or optical axis of the luminaire reflected by the mirror, that is to say the axis that passes through the photocell. The mirror
is inclined 45° with respect to the horizontal axis / optical axis.

Lighting Design Service

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:31:26 +0000

Photometric Measurements

OxyTech has 3 laboratories in the world capable of producing any kind of photometric measurement:

in Italy, the headquarter, with 2 goniophotometers
in China with 1 goniophotometer at OxyTech FE Ltd.
in Spain with 1 goniophotometer at Asselum SL – Grupo OxyTech

following the most advanced international norms on interior luminaires, floodlights and road lanterns.

We may also measure lamps and emergency luminaires.

The laboratory, operating for more than 20 years, works in accordance with the ISO-9001-2008 Standard and includes, among its clients, manufacturers and public bodies from all over the world.

The laboratory is recognized by IMQ in order to measure luminaires for the IMQ Performance mark, the certification on luminaires photometries.

Lighting Design Software

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:28:04 +0000

Software – LITESTAR

Lighting design software, electronic catalogue and much more!

LITESTAR, the core of the LITESTAR Project, is a suite of 3 main modules:

Litecalc for lighting calculations, rendering and interface with CAD systems
Liswin, the interactive electronic catalogue
Lisman, the management system for project documentation and specifications

and 2 modules for data management:

Photowin, for photometric data management
Lisdat, for catalogue data management

It is completed by 2 separate accessory modules:

LisWEB, for visualizing catalogue data via WEB
FDB+MDB WEB for automatic data download via WEB

TracePro Bridge for Solidworks New Release

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:06:21 +0000

Lambda Research Coporation release TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks 4.1.8, Free to subscribed users

The TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks is an Add-in tool designed to allow SolidWorks users access to TracePro property data. Thus, it permits the export of mechanical models complete with optical properties. This makes it possible to create a TracePro file within SolidWorks and to maintain the design intent contained in the model. Designers can export to TracePro SolidWorks-made models ready for ray trace and optical analysis.

It provides easy exchangeability for both TracePro users who produce mechanical designs in SolidWorks as well as SolidWorks users that need to make optical models to be analyzed in TracePro. The TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks seamlessly incorporates optical property assignment and model navigation features from TracePro into the SolidWorks environment.

This feature allows mechanical and optical designers to produce fully integrated optical, mechanical and lighting designs and analyse the illumination.

LED Design information

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:50:27 +0000

TracePro model of 2W Golden Dragon® from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

TracePro model created using RGB LED LATBT66C from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

Zoom Lens Systems Technical Information

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:27 +0000

Evaluation of Zoom Lens Systems

OSLO is capable of handling tolerancing and optimization of Zoom system for almost all types of evaluation, third and fifth order aberrations, nodal point evaluation (focal length, principal points, spacing, chromatic aberration, tolerancing and more).

For more information regarding OSLO optical design software see here.