QUADOA® Optical CAD is the first sequential and multi-sequential optical design software for the complete prototyping process of optical systems.
With the main focus on optical simulation, analysis, optimization and tolerancing, QUADOA® Optical CAD features a wide range of comprehensive optical design capabilities.
Physical Methods: Besides classical Raytracing QUADOA® fully supports Polarization Raytracing as well as Wave Optical Propagation.
Simulation capabilities: A nearly unlimited range of surface types including Aspheres, Free-Form surfaces, Arrays, Phase functions, local surface defects as well as Birefringent materials, GRIN lenses or material inhomogenities can be simulated.
Powerful optimization algorithms allow to optimize any parameters of the optical system in order to find a solution for even the most complex design problems.
Multi-sequential raytracing opens up a new range of design options and analysis features.
Object-based approach enables a modular arrangement of lenses and assemblies.
Full bi-directional compatibility with mechanical CAD software enhances the opto-mechanical development in a new way.
Changelog v25.04
NEW: Prism Wizard
NEW: Polygon apertures and polygon editor
NEW: Improved intersection calculation for wide angle lenses > 180° FOV as well as for surfaces where more than one intersection points can be found
NEW: General speed improvement in ray tracing
NEW: Enums in Matlab wrapper
NEW: Option to switch in between 1 and 0 based counting in Matlab wrapper
NEW: Irradiance and ghost irradiance plot memory needs reduced
NEW: Multiconfig lookup and substitute optimization for catalog materials
NEW: Optimization targets now automatically get added to the current merit function
NEW: Better error messages when a chief ray cannot be traced due to TIR or missing surface
NEW: More filter options for the Optical Design Editor
NEW: 2D Aspheric form departure target
NEW: Import of off-axis and rectangular / elliptic apertures / obscurations from ZMX files
NEW: CAD export for prisms and beam splitter cubes
NEW: Show error message on hover above item
NEW: X/Y-axis selector in optical properties report
NEW: X/Y-axis selector in some optimization goals like NA, F#, …
UPDATE: CDGM, Ohara and Schott catalogs updated, including new materials
FIX: Crash in multiconfig thermal parameter
FIX: License manager sometimes showed wrong license data
FIX: Zernike tolerances did overwrite radius tolerances in some cases
FIX: Selecting rays in the 3D view did not work with random sampled rays
FIX: Crashes on CAD export for lenses with aperture radius set to inf or zer
