Code V

CODE V is the industry-leading optical design software. CODE V is used to model, analyze, optimize, and provide fabrication support for the development of optical systems with diverse applications. It provides a powerful, yet easy-to-use toolkit of optical techniques and calculations.

• Key Features
• Innovation
• Quality
• Superior Productivity
• First-Class Support
• Experience and Commitment

For a more detailed look at technical features of the program, please see the technical description, or contact ORA.

Key Features
	In addition to such basic capabilities as lens modeling and spot diagrams, CODE V has a vast array of technical, graphical, and ease-of-use features. The following list of "key features" is just a small subset of what is available. See the technical description for a more detailed look at capabilities. Optimization (including Global Synthesis) Ease of use (GUI interface and commands) Extensive built-in libraries of optical system models (patents, etc.), components, and optical glass Extensive graphics (pictures, data plots, shaded displays), including 3D visualizations and diffraction-based image simulations Database/modeling Features Tolerancing (including extremely fast and accurate wavefront differential tolerancing) Interferogram interface (supports computer-aided closed-loop alignment) Non-sequential surface modeling for unusual systems Powerful command language (with Macro-PLUS programming) Fast 2D Image Simulation with an input bitmap file (including diffraction) CODE V is the most comprehensive "tool box" for optical modeling, design and analysis available today.
Innovation
	CODE V is the most comprehensive optical design and analysis program in the world. For nearly thirty years, it has led the way with a long series of innovations. These include: Zoom/multi-configuration optimization and analysis Environmental/thermal analysis Fast wavefront differential tolerancing for MTF, RMS wavefront error, fiber coupling efficiency, polarization dependent loss, and Zernike wavefront coefficient performance metrics User-defined constraints in optimization Interferometric interface and optical alignment Non-sequential surface modeling Vector diffraction calculations including polarization Global Synthesis®, the first practical global optimization method for optical design And many more Recent improvements include extensions to the powerful Macro-PLUS programming language, a graphical user interface (GUI), and several new features for analysis of illumination in optical systems. As with all features of CODE V, these new capabilities offer outstanding depth, generality, and applicability to real-world problems.
Quality
	ORA is large enough to devote resources to all aspects of software development, from planning to algorithm development to implementation. This includes the all-important discipline of testing to assure quality. We know that our customers count on us for correct results to critical problems, and CODE V has an excellent reputation for accuracy in the many critical optical calculations it performs. To maintain this quality, extensive testing is required,and this important work is a multilevel process at ORA. Test cases developed in parallel with code Automatic test-case checking during development In-house testing by technical staff, including use by ORA's engineering staff Beta test periods at selected customer sites Complex engineering software is a challenge to develop and test. ORA works hard at all levels to assure a quality product for its customers.
Superior Productivity
	CODE V helps its users to obtain accurate results quickly and easily - the very essence of productivity. Ease-of-use is an important factor in productivity. A simple graphical user interface (GUI) allows novice and occasional users to get basic results quickly with familiar pulldown menus and other simple mouse operations. Frequent users find that the logical command structure and intelligent default assumptions help them to solve problems with efficiency and confidence. Advanced users appreciate CODE V's completeness and the built-in Macro-PLUS programming language that allows them to customize CODE V output easily.
First-Class Support
Use of the Airborne Infrared Echelle Spectrometer model is courtesy NASA Ames Research Center.	Even with an easy-to-use program such as CODE V, engineering can be a complex and sometimes difficult task. ORA is well-known for its excellence and responsiveness in providing technical support by phone, fax, and e-mail. With over 50 person-years of real-world engineering experience, our tech support team provides expert answers to customers' questions, helping them to make the best possible use of the program. Updates are another important aspect of support. With one or more major updates per year, CODE V users always have the latest available technology. Newsletters, training seminars, and complete documentation round out the support picture.
Experience and Commitment
	ORA was founded in 1963 as an engineering services company, serving the optical design needs of customers in aerospace and other demanding industries. Now more than forty years later, engineering continues to be an important part of ORA's business, helping our clients, but also helping to make sure CODE V remains the most capable and best-tested optics program available.