About Optica™

 

Optica™ is a professional optical modeling environment developed for advanced scientific and engineering work in optics and photonics.

 

Unlike conventional optical design packages built around fixed workflows and predefined assumptions, Optica™ approaches optical modeling as a flexible computational language. It combines ray tracing, wave optics, symbolic analysis, optimization, and custom application development within a unified environment connected to the Wolfram Language.

 

Development of Optica™ began in the early 1990s from the belief that optical engineers and scientists should not be constrained by rigid software architectures when exploring new ideas. Over more than three decades, Optica™ has evolved continuously through real-world research, engineering challenges, and collaboration with users working across a wide range of optical technologies.

 

Today, Optica™ is used for the design and analysis of systems ranging from classical imaging optics to advanced electromagnetic and photonic structures. Its emphasis on transparency, extensibility, and physical insight allows researchers and engineers to create highly customized optical models tailored to their own applications.

 

Optica™ remains independently developed with a continued focus on innovation, scientific clarity, and long-term technical depth.

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Developed by Dr. Donald Barnhart