Software Products

Lambda Research Corporation is an innovative single-source software solutions provider to the leaders in aerospace and defense, lighting, display, life sciences, industrial manufacturing, and information technology. Its seamlessly integrated suite of optical and opto-mechanical design tools includes: TracePro^® and a menu of translators and add-ins enabling streamlined workflow and interoperability among other commercially available design and analysis software tools.

Illumination and Opto-Mechanical Design

TracePro is a comprehensive, versatile software tool for modeling and analyzing the propagation of light in imaging and non-imaging opto-mechanical systems. Models are created by importing from a lens design program or a CAD program or by directly creating the solid geometry in TracePro. Optical properties are assigned to materials and surfaces in the model. Source rays propagate through the model with portions of the flux of each ray allocated for absorption, specular reflection and transmission, fluorescence and scattering. From the model, analyze system and component level contributions to performance.

TracePro Bridge for SolidWorks is an add-in to SolidWorks that allows users to apply and save optical properties directly to the SolidWorks model via the TracePro System Tree within SolidWorks. To insure data integrity, a single model is used by both TracePro for ray tracing and optical analysis and by SolidWorks for mechanical design and modifying optical material properties. 

Complementary to TracePro, software products by Brandenburg are highly specialized software tools for modeling, design and simulation for applications from commercial lighting to automotive headlamps.

Lens Design

OSLO is a powerful optical design software tool featuring classical lens design, advanced ray tracing and analysis, optimization, and tolerancing of all types of optical imaging systems.

LensVIEW is a comprehensive database of more than 30,000 lens designs found in the U.S. and Japanese patent literature.