OSLO® is a leading lens design tool that combines advanced ray tracing, analysis, and optimization methods with an easy-to-use, high-speed, internal compiled language to solve a wide variety of new problems in optical design.
OSLO® works in tandem with TracePro® software to provide a complete and comprehensive design environment.
OSLO® (Optics Software for Layout and Optimization) is a powerful and user-friendly optical design program with a wide-ranging scope.
OSLO® is an excellent choice to meet the needs of optical designers to fulfill their optical system requirements. It was designed with the needs of optical designers and engineers in mind. Designers have significant freedom to define and constrain systems with OSLO®’s open architecture to design the system they need and the way they want.
OSLO® has an excellent heritage and has been used longer than most of its competitors to design and engineer manufacturable optical systems with refractive, reflective, diffractive, gradient index, aspheric, and freeform optics. Its superior raytracing, analysis, and solid foundation in accurate physics modeling has made it a valuable choice for many designers and a tool that has been widely used to check the accuracy of other programs.
OSLO® provides an integrated software environment that helps you complete modern optical design tasks. It is widely used in lens design to determine the optimal sizes and shapes of components in optical systems. OSLO®’s raytracing algorithms and analysis features are efficient and provide an excellent foundation for optimizing and analyzing lenses, telescopes, and other optical designs.
OSLO® has been used to successfully design a multitude of optical systems from concept through testing and manufacturing.OSLO® includes multiple local and global optimization and search methods along with many optimization targets to help refine and tune designs for maximum quality.
OSLO® is developed by Lambda Research Corporation from Westford (MA,USA), partner of OxyTech., but also in cooperation with NASA for the study of the backlit panels of orbital stations.
OSLO® Editions
There are two editions of OSLO®:
OSLO® Edition Comparison Table
OSLO® Licenses
There are two licenses of OSLO®:
- Single Computer License
- Floating Network License
that can be used:
- through a USB dongle USB (USB)
- through an activation code (Soft)
Further information about OSLO® versions
Support Tools
Lambda provides a series of tools and documents (tutorials, examples, videos, etc.) in the Support section.
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Manual
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Look at the presentation of OSLO®
Look at the video Beginning to End Optical Design and Engineering with OSLO® (First Session)
Look at the video Beginning to End Optical Design and Engineering with OSLO® (Second Session)
Look at the presentation of TracePro®, RayViz and Oslo
Look at the video Start to Finish Optical Design Using OSLO, RayViz, and TracePro