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Welcome to the Optiland Community!

Hello everyone! We want to give you all a warm welcome to the Optiland official website. **What is Optiland?**\ ...

manuel
manuel·3/18/2026
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Help & Questions

Prisms

I'm new to optical design and I'm greatful for optiland as a playground to learn. There are a lot of great examples/tut...

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Mike·10/5/2026
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Bug Reports

reviewing code

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evendadat·9/17/2026
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Help & Questions

Temperature-dependent glass assignment in surface.add() for polychromatic systems

Hi, I'm trying to understand how temperature-dependent materials are intended to be used in Optiland. I noticed that t...

Sebastian
Sebastian·8/6/2026
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Show & Tell

How to use Fused Silica (UVFS) surfaces

I don't know if this will actually help anyone, but in the beginning I have been struggling with the creation of fused s...

ntap
ntap·4/29/2026
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Tilting the object plane in a lens design

Hello everyone, I am new to optiland as well as ray tracing in general, so there might be a lot wrong to the approac...

ntap
ntap·4/28/2026
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The problem of the thickness variable being ineffective when using torch for optimization

I found that when using the** Torch backend** for optimization, when adding multiple thickness variables with **problem....

Nan Steve
Nan Steve·4/20/2026
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How to increase fiber output power of LED array

There are 7 LEDs in TO39 packages with an outer diameter of 9.5 mm. Each LED has a lens at the light exit port, and afte...

tangzs
tangzs·4/3/2026
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