Photopia Optical Design Software
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| Stable release | 2014.0.4
/ August 1, 2014 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | CAD Software |
| License | Proprietary. Copyright(c) 1996-2014, LTI Optics, LLC. |
| Website | www |
Photopia Optical Design Software (Photopia) is a commercial optical engineering ray-tracing software program for the design and analysis of non-imaging optical systems. Photopia is written and distributed by LTI Optics, LLC (formerly Lighting Technologies, Inc.) and was first released in 1996. Photopia's main market is the architectural lighting industry but it is also used in the automotive, medical, industrial, signal and consumer products industries. Photopia includes a full library of lamps including the latest high brightness LEDs as well as a library of material BSDF data. [1]
History
Photopia's predecessor, FRED was released by Lighting Technologies, Inc. in xxxx. A major re-write of the code resulted in Photopia, released in 1996. Photopia has been in continual development since 1996, first by Lighting Technologies, Inc., then by spin off LTI Optics, LLC who has been responsible for Photopia since 2006.
Markets
Photopia is used in the architectural lighting, medical, automotive, industrial, signal and consumer products industries. It has been used to design LED luminaires[2], solar concentrators, and UV disinfection systems[3], among many others.
Interface
Photopia works on modern versions of the Windows operating system. Photopia has a CAD system which is used for setting up simulations and viewing results. Photopia can import DXF, DWG, and STL drawing files, and can export DXF and 3DM file formats for CAD translation. Photopia has a scripting interface for running batch analysis and setting up models without the CAD interface.
Source and Material Library
Photopia has a library of
See also
- List of ray tracing software
- Optical engineering
- Optical lens design
- Ray tracing (physics)
- LTI Optics, LLC is a Research Associate of SolidWorks and SolidWorks Corporation
- LTI Optics, LLC is a LED Solution Provider[4] of Cree_Inc.
References
- ^ Kowalski, WJ; Bahnfelth, WP (January 2000). "UVGI Design Basics for Air and Surface Disinfection" (PDF). HPAC Engineering: 100–110. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ Kim, YS; Choi, AS; Jeong, JW (July 2012). "Development of a Numerical Model for the Luminous Intensity Distribution of a Planar Prism LED Luminaire for Applying an Optimization Algorithm". LEUKOS: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. 9 (1): 57–72. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ Ahmed, Y; Blatchley, ER. "CFD-I Modeling of UV Disinfection Reactors with Stochastic Evaluation of System Variables" (PDF). Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ "CREE LED Solution Providers: Optics". Retrieved 14 October 2014.