News Archive
2012
TracePro 7.1 is the latest release of Lambda’s award-winning illumination and optical analysis software. This release features dramatic new visualization capabilities, new path-sorting, enhanced ray sorting and a new multi-core thread setting.
The new 3D visualization feature displays irradiance, illuminance, CIE and true color plots directly on selected curved and planar surfaces and parts in the system view.
This gives TracePro a considerable advantage over the competition.
See the Press Release
June 2011
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May 2010
New lighting design Brochure:
Extract: Software for Lighting Design Luminaire and LED based Lighting Design Design of application-specific lighting systems involves adherence to various system performance criteria including spatial and angular light output distribution,uniformity, intensity, and spectral characteristics – as well as aesthetic factors such as lit and unlit appearance. Achieving these criteria quickly with a manufacturable and cost effective design requires modeling software that is powerful,easy to use, and accurate. TracePro, renowned in the scientific community for the accuracy of its simulations, offers lighting designers the confidence that the performance and aesthetics of finished products will concur with the simulated design without costly prototype iterations.
TracePro 7.0
TracePro 7.0 uses multi-threaded algorithms to raytrace on all the cores in Intel or AMD multi-core CPUs. Simulations done on a Dual Quad core computer show raytracing improvement of up to 10 times over previous releases when simulating LED,lighting, display, biomedical and aerospace systems.
The new interactive optimizer is specifically designed for non-sequential design on LEDand illumination systems. The optimizer features a sketch utility for quick design entry, interactive raytrace for design verification, downhill simplex optimizer with interactive entry of target specifications.
Other new features include a re-arrangeable system tree to create assemblies and standard drag and drop operations to arrange parts and assemblies. Two new irradiance options have been added including a new rainbow palette and normalization for stray light point source transmittance calculations. TracePro 7.0 also adds two new RepTile geometries, a flattened and pointed cone for the backlight display simulation.
Download LED Lighting Design Application note.
Download LED Lighting Design Brochure
Information on colour mixing software modelling with LED’s
January 2011
Key Photonics Ltd is proud to announce two major lighting events coming up shortly in the UK. Please put these dates in your diaries if interested.
1. Lighting Design Software Presentation –a joint event from Oxytech and Lambda Research.
Date: Wednesday 2nd March 2011
Location: London (CEME)
Places: Limited
Presenters: Stefano Borsani from OxyTech Srl and David Jacobsen from Lambda Research Corp.
A free demonstration and presentation of OxyTech’s ground breaking lighting design package LiteStar 4D, which easily and accurately renders 3D lighting schemes, for rooms, buildings and streets, just click and drag luminaries into the scene. To watch a video demonstration please see: http://www.oxytech.it/a-jump-into-future.asp
Plus: Lambda Researches Corp’s powerful Opto-Mechanical 3D Lighting and illumination software package. TracePro is a flexible and powerful ray tracing program based on ACIS, the industry-standard solid modelling kernel. It predicts intensity patterns in candelas and calculates illuminance on any surface. TracePro can model any surface type, and any surface can be made a source of light. TracePro features an easy and fun to use, state-of-the-art graphical Windows interface and strong data exchange capabilities with CAD and lens design software.
Cost: Free
2. TracePro 7.0 illumination Training
Date: Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th April 2011
Location: Cambridge (University of Cambridge)
Trainer: Dr Brian Blanford
Places: 15 Max
In this intensive short course, you will learn how to analyse real illumination systems using TracePro, many types of illumination will be covered, including light pipes, luminaires, concentrators, and projector illumination. After completing the course, attendees will be ready to use TracePro on their own or attend the advanced Stray Light Analysis or Scheme Programming Courses. Places are restricted to a maximum of 15 people on this course to ensure closer supervision.
Cost: £650 per person for both days, including refreshments, lunch and course materials. Held in an intimate learning environment in the picturesque city of Cambridge.
Please contact us for more information and to book your place on one of these great events.
December 2010
The first Optical Engineering and Design (OED) conference a great success at this year’s Photonex show!
Key Photonics Ltd Director Jake Sharpstone was involved in organising a new part of the Photonex Show this year – the Optical Engineering and Design (OED) conference. With a number of very interesting topics ranging from spectacles for the third world to optical manufacturing; it was also a good opportunity to meet and network with other people in the community. It provides a good platform in the UK for people to get together once a year and discuss the latest topics regarding this fascinating subject.
Key Photonics Ltd would like to thank everyone who was able to attend, for making it such a great success, If you haven’t done so already please join our Linkedin group and keep up to date on information and discussions; http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3021572&mostPopular.
We hope you can join us next year as the meeting grows.
October 2010
If you are involved in Optical Design or Engineering in the UK don’t miss out on our first meeting taking place next Thursday 4th November during the Photonex Exhibition.
We have organised some great international speakers including David Jacobsen form Lambda Research in the USA who will be speaking about how to optimise lens systems for LED’s and Ray George from Precision Optic Gera GmbH in Germany, speaking about complex optical system and microstructures.
This is a great opportunity to network with other optical designers and engineers and to hear some of the latest software and design considerations and interesting projects from research, academia and industry.
Please see: http://www.photonex.org/conference/oed.php for the details, to view the programme and to register as an attendee.
We have kept the cost of this first meeting to a minimum at:
Standard attendee fee: £60.00
Members of the IOP: £39.00
Students: £27.00
Prices include VAT.
July 2010
We are very pleased to announce Key Photonics ltd are now the exclusive UK and Northern Ireland representatives for Precision Optic Gera (POG) GmbH. Key Photonics Ltd will be responsible for all of POG’s products and services. Including custom microstructures and custom optical systems, please see the press release for further information.
May 2010
Optical Engineering and Design Meeting
Date: Thursday 4th November 2010
Venue: The International Centre, St Quentin Gate, Telford TF3 4JH
Call for papers out now!
This is the first meeting designed as a knowledge transfer from Industry to academia and academia to industry. If you are involved in optical engineering or design then this is you opportunity to join in and meet fellow engineers and designers, learn some important tricks of the trade or discuss and present your experience.
See news for more information.
April 2010
Mobile laser marking is now possible! No more moving large parts to the laser, move the laser to the part, see thebrochure for details.
Litestar 4D – Lighting design made easy – out soon, for glimpse see the presentation. (7MB)
March 2010
We are very pleased to announce that we are now the exclusive agents for OxyTech in the UK and Ireland, for their incredible software, services and hardware- leading the way in lighting design. Help the enviroment, design ecological lighting!
Why not try their free lighting design package Lightstar Open?
