Lamda Research | Optical design software for optics systems designers - logo img
Lamda Research | Optical design software for optics systems designers - logo img 2
Leading the way in optical design software tools for optics and illumination designers

Aerospace & Defense
Optics

Lighting
design

Display
design

Life sciences optics

Industrial manufacturing & IT optics

Optics software
for Education

Surface Types

Surfaces in OSLO can be refracting, reflecting, or total-internal-reflecting (TIR)
  • Conic (parabolic, elliptical, hyperbolic)
  • Cylindrical Surfaces
  • Toroidal
  • Polynomial asphere even orders
  • Symmetric polynomial asphere all orders
  • Asymmetric polynomial asphere all orders
  • Toroidal asphere
  • Rotational spline, unlimited points
  • Fresnel (plane, spherical, conic)
  • Axicon
  • ISO 10110 asphere
  • ISO 10110 cone
  • ISO 10110 toroidal asphere
  • ISO 10110 biconic
  • ISO 10110 asymmetric cone
  • Rotational Zernike asphere
  • General XY Zernike asphere
  • General XY asphere
DIFFRACTIVE SURFACES
  • Linear grating (any substrate)
  • Two-point hologram
  • Rotational power-series diffractive/binary
  • General XY power-series diffractive/binary
  • Rotational Zernike diffractive
  • General XY Zernike diffractive
  • Diffractive axicon (rotational symmetry)
  • Diffractive axicon (asymmetric)
EIKONAL SURFACES
  • Perfect lens
  • Eikonal (point, angle, pt-angle, angle-pt)
USER DEFINED SURFACES
  • User Defined gradient surface
  • User Defined sag surface
  • User Defined diffractive surface
  • User Defined eikonal surface (CCL or DLL)
  • Arbitrary User Defined Ray Trace Surface
LENS ARRAYS
  • Lens array (uniformly spaced elements)
  • Lens array (arbitrarily spaced elements)
GRADIENT INDEX SURFACES
  • Axial gradient
  • Radial gradient
  • Paraxial ray trace (axial and radial gradients)
  • Tilt and decenter of the gradient coordinate system
  • Wood lens
  • SELFOC™ lens
  • Gradium™ lens
  • Axial & elliptical gradient
  • Axial & sinusoidal gradient
  • Axial & tapered gradient
  • Spherical gradient
  • Maxwell's fisheye
  • Luneburg lens
  • User-defined gradient (CCL-Plus or DLL)
    GRIN index value at any point
    Axial GRIN profile plot
INTERFEROGRAM FILES
    Add interferogram data (e.g. Zygo or Wyko) to any surface for advanced simulation and tolerancing
Printable version
Site map Terms and Conditions of Use Privacy Policy CONTACT US HOME
© Lambda Research Corporation. Optical Design Software leader. All rights reserved.