Interactive Software for End-to-End Electro-Optical System Modeling

Lambda Research Corporation

Littleton, MA

The TracePro electro-optical modeling module predicts the end-to-end performance of electro-optical systems. Simulates the illumination of a scene or target through an optical system complete with opto-mechanical components and conversion to an electrical signal.

• Addition of blackbody/graybody source modeling to existing TracePro under JPL Phase II SBIR contract.
• Addition of aperture diffraction modeling to TracePro.
• Created Bitmap Source Converter module.
• Detector modeling module that converts incident irradiance into an electrical signal with modeling of noise and detectivity.
• Developed detector database of commercially available detectors.
• Modeling of end-to-end system metrics (MTF and PSF).

• Current sales of full TracePro family total $2M annually.
• TracePro with BitMap Source Converter purchased by Fuji Photo Film, General Motors, Goto Optical Manufacturing, Hoya, Matsushita Electronics, Northrop Grumman, Olympus Optical, OMRON, Physical Optics Corp., Semi-Conductor Devices (SCD) and SONY.

• Used in the design of surveillance systems, missile systems, heads-up display systems, and imaging systems.
• Software used in the design of Imaging and Heads-up Displays.
• Provides 30-50% savings in time and cost over traditional development methods.

Return to NASA SBIR Success Listings

Software

Curator: SBIR Support         7/09/04