Information Overview Optics Lab is a full featured Optical Design and Analysis program with advanced features at an affordable price. Unlike other programs, technical support is always free. Optics Lab has been on the market since 1993. Introduction Optics Lab allows you to evaluate the performance of optical systems quickly and easily. The Windows interface makes it possible to start using the program immediately because there are no obscure commands to learn.
All options are available from menus or dialog boxes.
You may place optics anywhere on the computer screen and the software will trace rays through the optics automatically. It's easy to make a change to your optical system and see the effects because all displays are updated automatically. Optics Lab is a non-sequential ray tracing program. Most ray tracing programs use sequential ray tracing which requires the user to specify the order of the optical surfaces. Optics Lab automatically determines which surface a ray will strike next.