CODE V 9.3 Delivers More Powerful Modeling and Programming Capabilities

The latest release of Optical Research Associates' (ORA®) CODE V® optical design software adds significantly more powerful modeling and programming capabilities, designed to benefit a broad range of users in a variety of industries, such as aerospace, consumer electronics, microlithography and telecommunications. CODE V 9.3 delivers an Application Programming Interface (API) that enables execution of CODE V commands from any application supporting the Windows® COM architecture, such as Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft Office Applications, C++, or MATLAB®. This API facilitates the creation of user-defined functions and simplifies data sharing with other programs, improving user productivity. Numerous enhancements have also been made to CODE V's modeling capabilities, including the ability to apply diffractive properties to any substrate shape, and the ability to create user-defined surface properties, providing users with more flexibility when specifying surface parameters such as coating characteristics, transmittance/reflectance properties, and polarization effects. CODE V 9.3 also expands the ability to model multi-configuration systems, such as scanners, by increasing the number of allowable system positions in a model to 99.

"The new CODE V 9.3 release substantially enhances its status as a comprehensive and essential optical design tool," said David Brown, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Optical Research Associates. "With CODE V 9.3, we're offering many new technical features that benefit a wide range of customers. We are very excited to include the COM technology that enables customers to link CODE V with external programs, making it easy to integrate CODE V's optimization and analytic capabilities with other engineering and scientific applications. CODE V 9.3 is the latest in a series of new releases that has produced a new, state-of-the-art user interface, advanced beam propagation methods for photonics applications, and much more. In addition, we plan to make a second CODE V enhancement release available before the end of this year."

Now in its 40th year as an industry leader, ORA is committed to delivering innovative solutions to the optics industry. With its CODE V and LightTools® software products, ORA is the world's leading developer of optical software. ORA is also the largest independent supplier of optical design and engineering services, with more than 4,000 completed projects since the Company was founded in 1963. For more information, visit http://www.opticalres.com.