CODE V Release 8.60, the newest version of Optical Research Associates' (ORA) optical design software, adds several new features that facilitate the design and analysis of optical telecommunications components. In particular, this release contains powerful tools for analyzing and optimizing optical fiber system coupling efficiency and insertion loss. This ability to optimize and tolerance optical systems based on coupling efficiency adds a powerful tool to the designer's toolbox.
Running on Windows or Sun SPARCstation platforms, CODE V 8.60 now provides built-in functions for modeling diffraction-based coupling phenomena; these can include polarization effects, beam apodization, beam truncation effects, Fresnel reflections, and even the diffraction efficiency of volume holographic optical elements (HOEs). Improvements to the diffraction beam propagation function enable tracking of diffraction energy losses on a surface-by-surface basis. Gaussian beam handling in both symmetric and non-symmetric optical systems has also been enhanced, and CODE V can now calculate beam radius, beam orientation, wavefront radius of curvature at a surface, as well as determine waist position and waist radius.
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