Optical Design Software: dbOptic - The Optical Design Database Program

dbOptic: Optical Design for PCs and Compatibles

Powerful, easy to use optical design software from Sky Scientific makes light work of optical design from a single lens or mirror to complex systems of up to 99 surfaces. Engineering professionals, students and educators use this software to perform simple ray tracing or solve tough optical engineering, optical system design and imaging problems. dbOptic includes a fully integrated glass catalog and basic lens design library. An optional library of 2,500 additional lenses and systems from major optical manufacturers and suppliers is available at small additional cost.

You can download a free evaluation version of this optical design software and have it running in a short time! dbOptic: Optical design software for Windows® 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista.

Features

dbOptic is easy-to-use, high-performance optical design software with most of the features of applications costing 10 or 20 times as much. While of obvious value to the optics professional, this software was developed in consideration of the needs of technical professionals with training in other disciplines as well as students and educators.

Features include ...

Capability to create and analyze systems with up to 99 surfaces including spherical and aspheric surfaces, flats and irises.

Fully integrated glass catalog.

Includes Basic Library of simple lenses and mirrors, photographic and telescope systems.

Additional Library of Manufacturer's Stock Lenses is optionally available.

Sort and Filter the database to find lenses to meet your requirements.

Real time 2D lens and ray graphics plus ray spot diagrams & encircled energy plots.

Complete design editing capability.

Polychromatic spot diagrams.

Imaging of extended objects.

Optimize with powerful optical design tools including Aberration XY Plots, H - Tan U and H' - L Plots.

Includes an on-line Optical Design Primer and Software Tutorial.

"If other optical design software you have tried leaves you with the impression that a graduate engineering degree is a prerequisite, you will appreciate the power and simplicity of dbOptic."

dbOptic is a comprehensive optical design program utilizing Microsoft Jet (Access®) Database technology to store, edit, sort, filter and update optical designs and glass catalog data. It can accommodate up to 99 surfaces per design (Rx) and a variety of surface types including spherical, flat ,elliptical, parabolic, hyperbolic, stops (called "Iris" surface type) and surfaces defined by an eighth degree polynomial (Ax² + Bx⁴ + Cx⁶ + Dx⁸).

optical design and raytracing software screen

The maximum practical number of prescriptions that can be stored in the database is known only to be "very large", constrained by the programmatic limitations of MS Access®. The maximum physical size of the application database is 1 Gigabyte and approximately 1 million records.

New prescriptions are entered surface-by-surface using a convenient datasheet format with each new surface displayed in the Graphics Window in real time. A fully featured design editing capability is included which enables editing individual surfaces, moving and "flipping" surfaces or elements and inserting new surfaces or complete designs from the database. New designs and lens libraries may also be imported into the database. The user may set defaults for new designs which include selection of English (in) or Metric (mm) units, object space medium and object distance and design wavelength in nanometers.

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