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Lambda Research Corp.

Company Description
Lambda Research Corporation sets itself apart as a cost effective, single source solution for optical and illumination design. Lambda sells TracePro®, opto-mechanical software differentiated by its ease-of-use, CAD interface and accuracy in illumination design, OSLO®, renowned for its power and flexibility in lens design and the TracePro Bridge™, a full integrated seamless add-in for Solidworks. Lambda also distributes the ScatterMaster ScatterScope3D™ scatterometer for fast and accurate surface measurement and defect detection for quality control, the Schmitt CASI® scatterometer, and the Opsira line of metrology systems for both display and LED measurement.

Contact Information


25 Porter Rd
Littleton,MA
United States
Press Releases
17 May 2012
Announcing the Release of TracePro 7.2
The TracePro 7.2 opto-mechanical software, features an all new 3D interactive optimizer specifically designed to increase productivity by using a sketch utility to create CAD geometry, interactive ray tracing for design verification, mouse digitization of target functions, and an interactive optimization process. This new optimizer drastically reduces design time while giving the user complete control of the optimization process.
03 April 2012
TracePro 7.1
Littleton, Massachusetts – April 4, 2012 –TracePro 7.1 is the latest release of Lambda’s award-winning illumination and optical analysis software. This release features dramatic new visualization capabilities, new path-sorting, enhanced ray sorting and a new multi-core thread setting.

The new 3D visualization feature displays irradiance, illuminance, CIE and true color plots directly on selected curved and planar surfaces and parts in the system view. These 3D plots are intended to help users visually track the propagation of light through any ray-traced system with complete pan, zoom and rotation of the view using standard mouse manipulation. This new graphical capability provides new insight and understanding in how energy and color propagates through an optical/illumination system, providing in-depth views to track down unwanted light and uniformity issues.

The new path sorting feature is perfect for in-depth system analysis. This new feature identifies every non-sequential ray path both quantitatively, using the built-in spreadsheet, and visually, in the system view. This new feature can be used in conjunction with the system view and irradiance/illuminance plots to track down problematic stray light, unwanted energy, and ghost paths in display, lighting, and aerospace applications.

The new enhanced ray sorting feature has been added to visually show bulk scatter and diffraction paths as separate ray paths in the system view. This enhanced feature is especially critical for understanding bulk scatter events in both medical and stray light applications.

Finally, a new option has been added to specify the specific number of threads to use on a multi-core computer. This feature sets the number of cores that TracePro can use while leaving other cores free for foreground applications.

Based in Littleton, Mass., Lambda Research Corporation was founded in 1992 and is a privately held company. Lambda is an industry leader in stray light analysis, illumination system design and analysis, and custom software development. Lambda Research Corporation publishes TracePro software for optomechanical modeling, The TracePro Bridge™ for interoperability with Solidworks and OSLO software for optical design. The company’s mission statement is to establish a technology bridge between optical engineers and mechanical engineers by providing state-of-the-art optomechanical design and analysis software, services and technical support to the optics industry worldwide. For more information, please visit the company’s web site at www.lambdares.com.