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 our TracePro software to provide a complete and comprehensive design environment.

Meeting Today’s Critical Requirements

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. Our software 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.

Wide Scope and Applications

OSLO is used worldwide as a primary optical engineering tool for cost-effective design, engineering, and manufacture of optical systems. It has been used in many applications for optical design including space telescopes (including segmented mirrors), camera lenses, zoom lenses, scanning systems, anamorphic systems, cinema systems, microscopes, ocular systems, projection systems, endoscopes, AR/VR/MR systems, photolithographic systems, mobile phone lenses, defense applications, laser systems, spectrometers, holographic systems, and much more. OSLO provides novice and expert users professional design power.

Superior Analysis Capability

OSLO was the first software to demonstrate that serious optical design could be carried out using desktop computers. It has the capability of modeling a wide range of reflective, refractive, prism, and diffractive components.  OSLO is an excellent choice for analyzing the performance of optical systems. It includes a wide range of performance metrics such as paraxial analysis, aberration analysis, spot size, encircled energy, ensquared energy, wavefront error, and MTF. All these quantities are easily analyzed and tied back to your key system performance metrics. OSLO’s easy-to-use, internally compiled CCL programming language is a unique feature that makes analysis of optical systems even faster. OSLO enables development of specialized design and analysis methods, without sacrificing any of the typical features for optimization, analysis and tolerancing that designers require to solve problems.

OSLO is the leader in flexibility for optical design programs. OSLO’s easy-to-use interface allows customization, with toolbar choices and menu options that can be changed by the user. Text output functions have fully addressable data output cells that make extracting data trivial for analysis routines in the included scp macro language, ccl programming languages, dll implementation, or external interfacing through dynamic data exchange. OSLO further gives designers great freedom in defining custom optimization error functions and use of variables to achieve tasks that go well beyond optical design and engineering.