ASAP PRO
As the name implies, ASAP PRO is for your toughest optical engineering challenges
ASAP® PRO combines the design power in the standard edition of ASAP with sophisticated features for modeling coherent systems, including Gaussian beam propagation, finite-difference beam-propagation, double-precision ray tracing, and polarization ray tracing. The resulting package is everything you need to turn your creative visions into working prototypes, taking into consideration the most complex of optical phenomena and interoperability challenges.
In addition to fully-featured CAD interoperability and wave optics power, ASAP PRO will import lens-design application files from CODE V®, OSLO®, SYNOPSYS™, and ZEMAX®, and is interoperable with the finite-difference time-domain code FDTD Solutions™. Together, ASAP and FDTD Solutions handle both macroscopic systems and microstructures in an elegant manner — a first in the optics industry. No other software combination spans such a large optical space.
ASAP PRO includes a distributed-processing capability allowing you to complete big design jobs in a fraction of the time required by other tools — spawn up to 5 additional ASAP sessions on your Local Area Network (LAN), without leaving your desk.
Key ASAP PRO Features
- Build system models requiring large numbers of objects and sources
- Model optical and mechanical system components
- Model imaging systems, illumination systems, and light-concentrating devices
- Model visible, ultraviolet, and infrared radiation in optical systems
- Model surface (BRDF) and volume scatter (pre-defined or custom)
- Model propagation in optical fibers and fiber coupling
- Model radiometry of complex systems, including radiance
- NEW Visualize, analyze, and monitor light distributions using conformal radiometry
- Model polarization and coherent effects in optical systems
- NEW Characterize liquid crystal materials using the ASAP Liquid Crystal Cell (LCC)
- NEW Define uniaxial materials with the ASAP General Uniaxial Medium (GUM)
- NEW Simulate devices and track polarization information in Stokes-vector mode
- NEW Model components that alter degree and state of polarization as MUELLER devices
- NEW Model display backlight units with polarization recycling
- Render system geometry, raytraces, and light sources
- Propagate and analyze wavefronts using Gaussian-beam decomposition
- Propagate in microstructures using the ASAP beam-propagation method
- Perform double-precision ray traces and analyze individual ray histories
- Perform numerical and graphical CIE/Chromaticity analyses
- Optimize optical systems with the ASAP Optimization interface
- NEW Save, review, and resume optimizations in progress with ASAP .osf files
- Tolerance optical systems in the ASAP Builder interface or scripts
- Import systems from CODE V®, OSLO®, SYNOPSYS™, and ZEMAX®
- Import/export complex vector-field distributions from FDTD Solutions™
- Import measured source data such as Radiant Sources™
- NEW Import data from images using the BRO Digitizer™
- Use SolidWorks® Parts Only 3D Modeling Engine (license included)
- Write ASAP-specific GTX files from within SolidWorks
- Assign object and layer names in SolidWorks
- Write ASAP-specific IGES files from within Rhinoceros®
- Import/Export IGES files using the ASAP smartIGES™ translator
- Import geometry and optical properties using the XML file format
- Integrate scripts in Python, VBscript, Jscript, and other languages
- Use pre-defined LED, CCFL, incandescent, and arc sources
- Drag-and-drop sources, lenses, glasses, scatter models, and coatings
- Begin your simulation with one of 600+ example files
- NEW Perform distributed processing tasks using the enhanced REMOTE
- Create your own custom workspace within ASAP
Pricing and Platform Information
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