This section describes the new features introduced in Speos 2024 R2 release.
Features from Beta to Official
Simulation: The Propagation error analysis option is now officially available and no longer in BETA mode.
The Propagation error analysis option helps you identify the root causes and decrease the percentage of errors in simulation. A *.lpf file dedicated to store only the rays in error is generated out of the simulation and analyzed. Through this file you can display the rays in error in the 3D view and the type of error so that you can correct your optical system.
Optical Surface: The Photometry tool is now officially released and no longer in BETA mode in the Feature Viewer of the Optical Surface.
The Photometry tool generates a photometric preview displayed in the feature viewer, a HTML report and a XMP file of the selected element(s) of the feature in order to help you verify if your current Optical Surface design passes the regulation standards defined.
Optical Lens: The Photometry tool is now officially released and no longer in BETA mode in the Feature Viewer of the Optical Lens.
The Photometry tool generates a photometric preview displayed in the feature viewer, a HTML report and a XMP file of the selected element(s) of the feature in order to help you verify if your current Optical Lens design passes the regulation standards defined.
In Workbench: creating a connection between the Solution cell of a Static Structural system and the Geometry cell of a Speos system is now officially release and no longer in BETA mode.
UX
Speos has been improved to provide a better user experience when launching a simulation: now you can quickly identify errors without waiting for the initialization to mesh the geometries.
When launching a simulation, the initialization does the simulation check before meshing the geometries. The initialization is stopped if system errors (optical properties not set, inconsistent set of parameters, etc.) are encountered. Errors are then displayed (to the end-user).
GPU Compatibility
Camera Sensor: Simulations using a Camera Sensor based on a *.OPTDistortion Binary file are now compatible with GPU Compute.
Optical Design Exchange: Simulations using Optical Design Exchange components or Light Box based on Optical Design Exchange components are now compatible with GPU compute.
Source
Surface Source: You can now simulate the LED flickering effect of Surface sources in Inverse simulations by defining the variation of the source's power in time, with two new Surface source Timeline parameters.
Sensor
The Optical Library now provides you with a FLIR Thermal Camera package containing five complete sets of FLIR Thermal Camera, a Thermal Camera Wrapper, and a Thermal Camera Editor. Thanks to this full new workflow you can generate thermal maps out of Speos Irradiance maps, and analyze them using Virtual Photometric Lab.
Component
Optical Design Exchange: The Optical Design Exchange feature now supports the following types of surfaces to define lenses after exporting a design from Ansys Zemax OpticsStudio.
Extended polynomial
Zernike Standard Sag
Zernike Fringe Sag
Biconic
Biconic Zernike
Optical Design Exchange: The Optical Design Exchange feature has been improved on many different aspects to provide a better user experience:
The default meshing parameters of the feature have been adjusted for a better precision. Parameter values are now:
Fixed sag of 0.001mm
Fixed step of 1mm
Meshing angle of 12 deg
The User Interface of the feature definition has been improved to display only parameters related to the type of geometry/object.
The list of coefficients (aspheres, Q-type, polynomials, Zernike coefficients, etc.) are now displayed in the definition panel of the feature.
Units are now considered in the *.odx file and displayed in the definition panel of the feature.
VOP and SOP defined in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio (coating) are the materials properties considered in the Speos simulation and cannot be overridden by VOP/SOP defined in Speos.
However, you can now define surface properties with FOP materials on geometries faces of the Optical Design Exchange feature. In this case, the default ODX material will be overridden by the FOP that has been defined on one or more faces of the geometry.
Simulations using Optical Design Exchange components or Light Box based on Optical Design Exchange components are now compatible with GPU compute.
When importing an Optical Design Exchange feature, the position and orientation of the lense are better supported.
The ComponentOpticsStudio API function allows you to access the name and parameters of each OpticStudioGeometry.
Stray Light Analysis
The Sequence Detection tool has been fully redesigned to propose more relevant information and a user-friendly interface.
The list of sequences now contains new columns such as Peak, Average, Spec R, Lamb R, Gauss R, Spec T, Lamb T, Gauss T.
When clicking a sequence, the list of interactions now displays only the interactions of the sequence selected.
When defining an Irradiance sensor, you can now sort the sequences per decreasing Energy or per decreasing Peak to identify bright spots more easily.
The Sequence Detection Filter can now filter the sequences through the use of thresholds.
Live Preview
The Live Preview has been improved to provide you with more capabilities and a better user experience:
A Status Bar now displays different information regarding the simulation that can be useful to understand how the simulation is progressing and the impact of the system settings on the performance.
A new panel is available, the Light Panel that allows you to manage the light sources included in the simulation such as changing their contributions without running a new simulation, and creating different configurations.
The Live Preview is now compatible with the VR Observer Sensor and the VR Immersive Sensor. The Live Preview VR Sensor compatibility is in BETA mode for the current release.
The Live Preview provides you with new navigation modes and scaling options.
The Live Preview now allows you to create a new sensor on the fly based on the definition of the active Radiance sensor, which will be located at the current viewpoint and added to the Speos tree.
Optical Part Design
Light Guide: You can now define multiple optical axes along the guide curve of a light guide so that you can smoothen the variation of the lit appearance when the observer direction changes.