From Physics to Performance With Ansys Optics

Ansys Optics offers robust software for design, optimisation, and verification, backed by top industry expertise. Their solutions empower engineers to quickly innovate optical products, improving performance and reliability. With advanced physics solvers and user-friendly workflows, Ansys Optics facilitates precise multiscale system design for various applications and industries.

Optics and Photonics Simulation & Design Software

Tools for Every Stage of Optical Innovation

Ansys delivers an end-to-end portfolio of optics and photonics solutions, from system-level design and lighting simulation to nanophotonic and waveguide analysis. With powerful solvers, intuitive interfaces, and seamless multiphysics integration, these tools enable engineers to design smarter, validate faster, and push performance boundaries across diverse applications and industries.

Ansys Speos

​Ansys Speos enables fast, accurate optical simulation with Human Vision, 3D environments, GPU acceleration, and multiphysics integration.

  • Design and validate lighting systems
  • Simulate real-world scenarios
  • Leverage human vision modeling
  • Enhance productivity with GPU acceleration
  • Access the Ansys multiphysics elbsystem

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio

Ansys Zemax OpticStudio revolutionizes optical design workflows with powerful simulation, optimisation, and tolerance tools, maximising efficiency and precision.

Complex optical system design
◦ STAR-enabled STOP analysis
◦ Robust ray tracing
◦ Advanced optimisation algorithms
◦ Intuitive user interface
◦ Access the Ansys multiphysics ecosystem 

Ansys Lumerical FDTD

​​Industry gold-standard for modelling nanophotonic devices, processes, and materials.

  • FDTD-3D Electromagnetic Solver
  • RCWA-Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis for rapid simulation of light scattering for periodic and multilayer structures
  • STACK-Optical Multilayer Solver for rapid analysis of thin film multilayer stacks

Ansys Lumerical MODE

Comprehensive design environment for optically guided Structures such as waveguides, fibres and couplers.

  • FDE – Design of straight and bent waveguides using Finite-Difference Eigenmode Solver
  • varFDTD- Rapid simulation of planar components
  • EME – Rapid simulation of long devices using
  • Finite Difference Eigenmode Expansion solver

Accelerate Optics And Photonics Innovation And Design

End-to-End Multiphysics and Multiscale Simulation Platform

Ansys delivers an end-to-end optics and photonics portfolio, from system-level design and lighting simulation to nanophotonics and waveguide analysis, enabling smarter design, faster validation, and higher performance through powerful solvers and seamless multiphysics integration.

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