Optical design tool

With a given lens design, PanDao supports optical engineers, production planers and purchasing managers to determine the optimum production chain, find an optimal supplier, equipped with the required fabrication technologies, and negotiate a fabrication price with suppliers.

As a result, the tool can lead to significant cost savings in the generation of complex optical systems. PanDao GmbH is a start-up founded in in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The software tool has been developed by a team of three senior experts in optics systems manufacturing with profound experience in research and industrial projects.

After succesfully passing through an intense field testing by various senior optical design specialists throughout Europe and USA, the tool was launched in early Rorschacher Strasse St.

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As mentioned above, the melt data can cause a serious problem when designing an ADC. When processing the glass, the optical companies use different melting processes that can vary the Sellmeier coefficients from one melt to another.

The Sellmeier coefficients provided in the catalogs used during the designing phase, might not be the same when actually buying the glass for manufacturing. In order to evaluate the errors introduced by different Sellmeier coefficients, we were able to get some melting certificates from Schott and Ohara for some of the glasses of interest see table 1. Using the tool described above, we tested these glasses using different coefficients. Having different melt data, will result in different amounts of residuals, which in some cases might exceed the requirements.

We investigated several cases, taking into consideration if we can adjust the prisms angles or not. Even when we allowed the change of prisms angles, the residuals were a lot more different than the catalog No melt case. The tool allowed us to investigate several ADC combinations at the same time and in a much faster way than what was done before.

We were also able to investigate the impact of different melt data of the glasses, in terms of designing an appropriate ADC. What is clear for now, is that people should pay attention and take into consideration the fact that different melt, might return different results that should be taken into consideration. The tool will be soon available for the community to be used.

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