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Three editions of OSLO are available to most cost effectively accommodate design needs. Please contact an applications engineer for assistance in selecting an edition of OSLO that best meets your specific requirements. The table below has an overview of the features available in each edition of OSLO. There is also a more detailed comparison.

OSLO Editions Feature Summary

 
 
Light 
Standard  
Premium  
General Surface Properties
   
3D optics (tilts & bends using local or global coordinates on all surfaces) 
YesYesYes
Unlimited number of surface, variables & optimization targets
YesYesYes
Test plate libraries
YesYes Yes
Test plate analysis and ranking
 YesYes
Non-sequential groups, regular and tabular arrays
  Yes
 
Surface Types  
   
Spheres, aspheres, conics, polynomial aspheres
YesYesYes
Cylindrical, toroidal, splines, axicons, Zernikes 
YesYesYes
Fresnels, ISO 10110 asphere, cones 
YesYesYes
Hologram, gratings, binaries 
YesYesYes
Axial, radial GRIN or Wood, Selfoc or Gradium lens
YesYesYes
User defined gradient, sag, eikonal or diffractive surface 
  Yes
 
Source Types
   
Astigmatic source, telecentric source, Arc, LED & Lambertian 
Yes YesYes
Independent X and Y Gaussian distributions and Radiant Imaging data
YesYesYes
Extended source shapes: cross, bar, filament, grid, slit, & user defined
YesYesYes
Polarized source
  Yes
    
Multiconfiguration Systems     
Zoom lens design, thermal configurations, athermal design 
 YesYes
Systems containing beamsplitters and multiple beam paths
 YesYes
Zoom lens optical properties analysis and comparative configuration plots
 YesYes
    
 Multiconfiguration Variables    
Curvatures, thicknesses, refractive indices & apertures, skip surfaces
 YesYes
Aspheric & special data coefficients (tilts, decenters, GRINS & diffractive)
 YesYes
Wavelengths, ray aiming mode, reference surfaces (stop, image, …etc.)
 YesYes
Aperture (NA, EPD, …etc.) and field of view
 YesYes
    
 Starting design libraries    
OSLO demos & examples (40 lenses), vendor lens catalogs (192+ lenses)
YesYesYes
Arthux Cox, Ellis Betensky, and Warren Smith libraries (705 lenses) 
 YesYes
Non-sequential & special examples (37 lenses)
  Yes
    
Fiber coupling efficiency     
Single-mode coupling with stepped-index or Gaussian-mode fibers
YesYesYes
Efficiency vs. tilt or displacement
YesYesYes
User-defined fiber mode
  Yes



 
Light 
Standard
Premium
Optimization
   
Autofocus for minimum paraxial focus, RMS spot size or RMS OPD
YesYesYes
Damped least squares with automatic error function or user calculated operands
YesYesYes
Damped least squares with pre-defined system and ray operands incl. spot size, wavefront, field sags, aberrations (3rd, 5th & chromatic), D-d, …etc.
 Yes Yes
Zernike, MTF, polarization and multi-layer coating property operands
  Yes
Powell's method, simplex method and global optimization engines
  Yes
Global Explorer and Adaptive Simulated Annealing
  Yes
Conformal optics (Wassermann-Wolf) solve 
  Yes
 
Tolerancing
   
Surface tolerancing on curvature, conic constant, thickness, axial shift
refractive index, X & Y tilt and decenter (all with ISO 10110 defaults)
YesYesYes
Component tolerances on X & Y decenter, tilt and center of curvature tilt
YesYesYes
Group tolerances on axial shift, decenter, tilt and tilt about arbitrary point
  Yes
User defined tolerancing error function with direct or inverse sensitivity and
RSS, uniform or Gaussian statistics
YesYesYes
Change table tolerancing using transverse spherical / axial & field D-d /
meridional & central coma / axial & field sags and RMS OPD /
best focus, back focus or focal length / direct or equal RSS contribution /
distortion, transverse distortion & lateral shear / magnification
 YesYes
MTF/Wavefront tolerancing using Hopkins-Tiziani method with direct or inverse sensitivity / perturbation coefficients or direct output / statistical performance estimates
  Yes
Monte Carlo Tolerancing with a user defined error function
  Yes
Tolerance grades (A, B, C, D) & grade table
  Yes
 
Tools
   
Narcissus or ghost effects, export DXF, IGES and 10110 ISO drawings
Yes YesYes
SCL - simple command language for automating specialized tasks
YesYesYes
CCL - compiled command language (C language syntax w/ support library)
YesYesYes
    
Analysis     
Spot diagrams: 7 different mono and polychromatic analyses w/ options 
YesYesYes
Aberration analyses: 3rd, 5th in any color / OSC calculation / 7th order spherical
YesYesYes
Wavefront analysis with exact Strehl ratio (w/ apodization) / Zernike analysis / pupil map or perspective plot / RMS & peak-valley statistics
YesYesYes
 Point or line spread function: meridional or sagittal scan / amplitude, phase & intensity output / FFT & direct integration methods / perspective plots
YesYesYes
Geometrical and diffraction based energy distribution with encircled & ensquared energy, 1/e2 & FWHM cutoff points and knife-edge scans
YesYesYes
MTF(Modulation Transfer Function) - through-frequency or through-focus
YesYesYes
MTF using FFT or convolution calculation / square wave input / vs. field angle
 YesYes
Gaussian beam interactive analysis: spot size, waist size & distance, wavefront radius, far-field divergence, Rayleigh range, deviation from diffraction limit (M2 factor) & plot beam spot size
YesYesYes
Gaussian beam astigmatic trace: independent YZ and XZ analyses
YesYesYes
Fiber coupling efficiency using overlap integral & Gaussian apodization
YesYesYes
Point or line spread function using choice of Kirchhoff or Rayleigh-Sommerfeld integral / vector diffraction / DOE efficiency
  Yes
Polarization and multilayer coating analysis 
  Yes
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