Visit us at Booth 825 at the San Diego Convention Center to:

• See KostaCLOUD Optical Design Software in action

• Learn how KostaCLOUD is the most intuitive optical design software on the market

Added 15 new surface types:

1. Forbes Q surface

2. Superconic Surface

3. Chebyshev Surface

4. Seidel Surface

5. Polynomial Surface

6. Cubic Surface

7. Arrayed Surface

8. Radial Zone Multi-Sag Surface

9. Toroidal Surface

10. Biconic Surface

11. Elliptical Surface

12. Fourier Surface

13. Conjugate Surface

14. Annular Cosine Surface

15. NURBS Surface

16. Binary Zone Surface

    

Improved Kinoforms

• They can impart sag upon the parent surface.

• Zones can be limited

• Discrete Kinoform Steps are supported

• Experimental Tool Radius Limit

Created new Surface Wrappings

• Circular Wrapping with Fixed Ring Distance

• Linear Surface Wrapping with Fixed Pitch

• Max Sag Surface Wrapping

Added new Coating

• Jones Matrix Coating

Added Generalized Freeform tilt compensation as: Mechanical Axis as Reference Normal

Added Sub-apertures to Multi-Sag Surface

Added new Gratings

• Radial Grating

• Polynomial Grating

• Concave Spherical Grating

Added Two Point Hologram

Added Paraxial Element

• Supports ABCD

• Supports EFL

• Supports EFLX EFLY

Added Atmospheric Element

• Saastamoinen - 1972

• Experimental Support for Seidelmann - 1992

Added Apodizers

• Gaussian Apodizer

• Image Apodizer

Improved Paraxial Optics Module

• Added ability to account for generalized Optical Elements. This has a limitation on certain Tilt and Decenter.

• Added support for Kinoforms and their chromatic properties.

Improved Performance

• Generation 3 hardware accelerates program by factor of 4

• Generation 3 hardware accelerates Data management operations by factor of 10

• Zernike performance increased by factor of 4

• Iterative ray-trace root finder increased performance by factor of 2

Added Tolerancing

• Tolerance data is output into a spreadsheet for sorting, and further calculations by the user.

• Added Sensitivity analysis.

• Added Monte-Carlo Methods.

  • Perform comprehensive yield studies

• Added Irregularity Tolerance

  • Uses Seidel Surface

  • Uses Zernike Surface

• Added Compensators

  • Any indept. Variable can become a compensator

• Added Tolerancing Groups

  • Now Groups can contain specific tolerances, such as group translation tolerances, as well as inherited tolerances.

• Added Element Tolerances

  • Elements can also contain their own specific tolerances.

• Added Suppose Mode

  • Suppose mode allows users to make a change without saving anything. This is particularly useful for seeing the perturbed system with tolerances.

• Added Tolerancing Data Serialization for saving state based on some set of "macro" parameters.

Added Numerics Tests

• Verified Zernike surface accuracy is within acceptable range: 10^-15 to 10^-12

• Verified Sphere surface accuracy is within acceptable range: 10^-15 to 10^-14

• Verified Conic surface accuracy is within acceptable range: 10^-15 to 10^-14

• Verified Reflection Numerics accuracy is within 6 x 10^-15

• Added Numerics Test feature for any surface to determine how well Ray-Surface intersections can be calculated for the particular problem of choice.

Improved ISO10110

• Added Asphere Coefficient Tables and Equations to Sheet

Added Move Reference Tool to Lenses for setting the local reference to be:

• First Surface

• Second Surface

• First Surface Center of Curvature

• Second Surface Center of Curvature

Added Single Ray Trace Metrics

• Single Ray Trace Total Angle X

• Single Ray Trace Total Angle Y

• Single Ray Trace Total Angle Z

• Single Ray Trace Total Angle

• Single Ray Trace Position

• Single Ray Trace Position X

• Single Ray Trace Position Y

• Single Ray Trace Position Z

• Single Ray Trace Flux

• Single Ray Trace Polarization S1

• Single Ray Trace Polarization S2

• Single Ray Trace Polarization S3

Added Dragging Elements as Groups

Added Editing Elements as Groups

• Data collation

• Multi-set properties

Visit us at Booth #1021

Exhibition dates: April 15-17th 2025

See you there!

• Added User Defined Kinoforms

  

• Calculates simple Scalar diffraction efficiency based on wavelength and number of steps. Users can also add on their own multiplier on this by changing η in the Diffractive surface mode table.

• Added Origin Symbol for identification of origin in document.

  

• Added Code-V .SEQ Import and Export

• Fixed ZEMAX import to include units associated with file.

• Added Macro Endpoints for future Macro Integration

• Added FRTS Theory for scattered surfaces to Surface Scatter

  

• Added Caching to CAD Data to improve load performance

• Added Undo and Redo

• Added Reports to Reports Tab to allow users to create and manage reports.

• Improved accuracy of Conic Intersection algorithm.

• Added Extended Prescription report

• Material Models now default to the refractive index and Abbe Number of the current glass.

• Added convert to Material Button to Model Glass

  

• Improved virtual lighting in the software

Come visit our booth #2455

Exhibition dates: 28 – 30 January 2025

We hope to see you there!

At Mirror Tech Days Simon Tsaoussis, CEO, will be giving a talk on "A Physics-Based Approach to Solving the Near Angle Scatter Dilemma (FRTS)" on Tuesday November 19th. This talk will be a summary of KostaCLOUD's NASA awarded SBIR Phase I research and development effort to model scatter more accurately than ever before, especially in the near angle regime.

KostaCLOUD will also have a table at the event.

Look forward to seeing you there!