23 Jan 2009 FRED Optimum is the premier proven optical engineering software, to visualize and solve today's leading edge optical/illumination engineering problems. FRED Optimum (FRED) is an advanced optical engineering software program capable of simulating the propagation of light through virtually any optical/mechanical system. FRED has two methods of propagating light, through either standard raytracing or a Gaussian beam decomposition algorithm to propagate coherent optical fields.
FRED was developed with the following goals in mind:
* Make rapid virtual prototyping accessible to engineers
* Use a Dynamic System Tree to order Curves, Surfaces, Custom Elements and Subassemblies
* Offer a high level of visualization and user interaction with a WYSIWYG Interface
* Includes IGES, STEP and optical import translators
* Visual Basic scripting with extended functionality to think outside the box
* NEW hybrid non-sequential Optimization tool |
