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photopia
optical design software

Use Photopia to design and analyize non-imaging and illumination optical systems directly in SOLIDWORKS and Rhinoceros

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Seamless CAD Integration

Photopia is fully integrated into Solidworks and Rhino, allowing you to analyze and create native geometry.

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Source and Material Library

LTI Optics has taken great care to fully measure and model a library of over 1389 common light sources and 1541 common materials.

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Parametric Optical Design Tools

Photopia will generate optical geometry based on where you want to aim light, making the process of creating an optic from scratch quick and easy.

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Better Designs, Faster

Over the same development time period, with Photopia you can test and iterate over many more design options, allowing you to get to the most optimal design more quickly.

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Optical consulting services.

Expert consulting from the creators of Photopia, the leading optical design software.

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News

Software Updates

August 25 2020

photopia 2020.1 Released

A new online licensing system makes license sharing and installtion quick and easy, along with many updates related to UV applications, like Fluence, and UV library content.

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Software Support

August 25 2021

Laser Aiming Tutorial

Helpful tips for using on laser lamp modeling for aiming a TIR collimator.

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February 25 2019

Non-Standard Luminous Shapes

We have published a white paper on non-standard luminous shapes which shows how to best handle large luminaires like open rings or serpentine linear shapes since the standard IES file format has limited ability to define such shapes.

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Library Updates

August 25 2021

August 2020 Update

Our August Library Update included a wide range of UV lamps and materials, including LEDs from Crystal IS and Luminus and T5s from Philips as well as UV materials from Kopp, Alanod and Almeco.

There was also a range of human skin properties, used for optical sensing applications of pulse and oxygen saturation.

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Events

October 27-29, 2021

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New York, NY

October 27-29, 2021

Booth 1039