🎯 Tech Tip Tuesday: From OpticStudio to Speos — Camera Models with Diffraction Effects

📸 High-quality camera-based imaging systems are essential across automotive, consumer electronics, industrial inspection, and medical imaging. Yet validating system-level image quality in realistic 3D environments has traditionally required costly physical prototypes or fragmented simulation workflows.

🔬 Reduced Order Models (ROMs) in Zemax OpticStudio address this challenge by capturing a continuously expanding set of optical behaviors, including distortion as well as geometric and chromatic aberrations. The latest-generation ROM, available since 2024, has been validated across diverse lens architectures—delivering results consistent with full-geometry models at significantly faster simulation speeds.

✨ At the same time, diffraction effects can limit image quality, making ray-based methods alone insufficient.

🤓 This week’s tip:

Coming soon: Move from full optical geometry to Reduced Order Models (ROMs) to accelerate system-level image simulation—without sacrificing fidelity.

With Ansys Zemax OpticStudio + Speos, you can:

✅ Convert detailed lens designs into compact ROMs
✅ Capture key optical effects including distortion, geometric & chromatic aberrations
✅ Incorporate diffraction effects for more physically accurate image quality
✅ Import directly into Speos for full-scene simulation at significantly faster speeds

The result?

👉 Earlier image quality validation
👉 Reduced reliance on physical prototypes
👉 A streamlined path from lens design to system-level analysis

🎥 Want to see this workflow in action? Join our upcoming webinar:

From OpticStudio to Speos: Camera Models with Diffraction Effects
📅 July 16, 2026
🕘 Session 1: 9:00 AM EDT
🕑 Session 2: 2:00 PM EDT

🔍 You’ll learn:

• How to generate camera ROMs in OpticStudio, including diffraction effects
• How to transfer ROMs into Speos
• What image effects are captured in the reduced model
• How ROM-based simulation supports system-level camera validation
• Example use cases in camera design and image quality assessment

👩‍💻 Speakers:

• Sebastien Noygues, Technical Product Management, Staff Engineer
• Laleh Mokhtarpour, Solutions Engineering, Staff Engineer

💡 Whether you're working in automotive, consumer electronics, industrial inspection, or medical imaging, this workflow helps transform how you validate image quality.

👉 Register now to explore a faster, end-to-end path from lens design to full-scene camera simulation.

https://bit.ly/4fd6CI8


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