Testimonials

"VirtualLab is the only program I have seen that incorporates ray tracing, RCWA, and other modeling methods. VirtualLab also picks the modeling method that provides the best result with the least computation.”

Byron Cocilovo
Apple
USA
19.10.2016

"This course was useful to help give me a boost in learning a software program I normally would have had a bit of a steep learning curve to learn all details.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Nick Cirucci
Microsoft
USA
19.10.2016

"For anyone wants to jump start in design diffractive optics, this VirtualLab course is a must class to take.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Fei Liu
Oculus
USA
19.10.2016

"Would recommend the course to people who have spent some time on the tool.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Christine Chen
Foxconn Interconnect
USA
19.10.2016

"Highly recommended! Course length is just right. Amount of information is also just right. You can get up and running VirtualLab after this.”
(about the VirtualLab training course Mountain View, October 2016)

Khoa Nguyen
USA
19.10.2016

"VirtualLab is a professional tool that in my view is one of the very best in software for solving a complex light phenomena. It shows innovative and effective solution for unexpected experimental results I got during my academic study. No need for a complex programming language.

The team at LightTrans is very helpful, friendly and kind. I am convening our institute to cooperate with VirtualLab."

Basim Khudhair
Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics (INA)
University of Kassel
18.04.2016

“A very helpful survey to many aspects of using a powerful program to cope with complex questions in diffractive optics.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2016)

Ulrich Wetzel
Siemens AG
Erlangen, Germany
18.03.2016

“Awesome software engineering! The best parallelization of workflow across the board that I have ever seen in an optical design software.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Anurag Gupta
Google
Mountain View, CA, USA
20.03.2015

“One of the most rigorous presented tools on seminar and on website.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Marko Virsek
Hella Saturnus
Ljubliana, Slovenia
20.03.2015

“I had a very good course of VirtualLab during this training. I can now have a feeling of what can be done and can’t without VirtualLab. Overall, everything was perfect including the teaching, exercise, organization. And thank you.”
 (about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Gebirie Yizengaw
Vrije Universiteit
Brussels, Belgium
20.03.2015

“The software is a must-have tool for a wave-analysis purpose. Definitely it is different from the other previous design tools, but VirtualLab has its own advantages over already well-known software. It is also a very intuitive tool with well-constructed GUI, especially the capability of setting the light source and/or the target with an image file is very easy to use.”
(about the VirtualLab training course March 2015)

Jae-Won Cha
Samsung Electronics
Sowon-si, South Korea
20.03.2015

“VirtualLab is a very promising software that is helping in solving some peculiar diffraction issues that have been causing headaches to the community.

The support team is very helpful and works side-by-side with the customer in order to adapt the software and its modules to the needs.

The training course was brilliantly structured, with a 2-days practical general introduction plus a whole day dedicated to our precise needs.”

Federico Landini
INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Firenze, Italy
24. 03. 2015

“VirtualLab is a great tool with special features, as for instance the rigorous treatment of diffraction effects, that nicely complement the analyses usually performed with standard optical design software.

The high degree of customisation and the technical support provided by LightTrans are opening the possibility to perform analyses of complex optical systems that were considered unfeasible before.

The course of VirtualLab was very well structured and tailored to our specific needs.”

Matteo Taccola
ESA / ESTEC
Noordwijk, Netherlands
25.02.2015

“JENOPTIK is using VirtualLab for the design of microoptical components as well as the simulation and rigorous analysis of microoptical systems.

On the one hand, with its user friendly interface, VirtualLab supports the designer with taking away much of the complexity involved with microoptical design and wave theoretical analysis, making the design process much more efficient.

On the other hand, VirtualLab still provides full control and flexibility with the possibility to write own snippets and modules for special design tasks.

We cooperate closely with the experts of LightTrans in solving complex optical design tasks and appreciate the short response time and competent support of LightTrans.”

Dr. Thomas Juhasz
Product Development Microoptics
Jenoptik Optical Systems GmbH
Jena, Germany
08.10.2014

“The well-structured course served exactly those needs I had. I highly recommend the course for those VirtualLab users, who have learned the use of the utility by trial and error by themselves.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Jorma Palmen
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland
26.09.2014

“The course covers all relevant DOE-Topics in sufficient depth. The exercises are well explained.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Wilfried Noell
SUSS MicroOptics SA
Hauterive, Switzerland
26.09.2014

“This course is high level in terms of scientific content, quality of the speakers and welcome in LightTrans office building.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Olivier Gagliano
Sun Partner Group
Aix-en-Provence, France
26.09.2014

“A very useful course well pitched to help with understanding and using VirtualLab.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Daniel Lloyd
Laser Optical Engineering
East Midlands Airport, United Kingdom
26.09.2014

“Basic course is really very useful before you start to do the real work in VirtualLab.”
(about the VirtualLab training course September 2014)

Bohumil Stoklasa
Meopta-Optika
Prerov, Czech Republic
23.09.2014

“VirtualLab is one of the most exciting ways to discover the physical behavior of light. This “all in one” software includes coating analyses, microstructure design, illumination and imaging optics but also rigorous grating analysis and resonator physics.

The smart implementation of complex algorithms like the Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm is fast and intuitive leading to high quality manufacturing results.

Especially, the programming interface of VirtualLab is incomparable to other optical design software and provides a nearly unlimited implementation capability of customized light sources, optical components and mathematical methods.”

Roberto Knoth
R&D | Microstructures
POG Präzisionsoptik Gera GmbH
Germany
17.09.2014

“Our dongle was defect after more than 6 years in use. LightTrans has replaced it very fast and free of charge. The customer support is friendly and highly appreciated. VirtualLab is a powerful tool for wave optic simulations.”

Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Liechtenstein
31.1.2014

“Novel light fields and beam profiles such as top-hat, multispot generation as well as LG-/Airy-/Bessel beams are becoming increasingly important. They are also gaining greater acceptance in applications such as high-throughput laser-material-processing, high-resolution / lightsheet microscopy and even quantum optics.

LCOS Spatial Light Modulators allow high quality, fully flexible and dynamic creation of these lightmodes. Virtual Lab helps our customers to easily design and calculate the according phase patterns with appropriate CGH (computer generated hologram) algorithms or diffractive optical element (DOE) approach and optimize them according to their experimental set-up. Having this powerful software makes it easy to start using light as a new and powerful tool and concentrate on the application itself.”

Thomas Niedereichholz
Sales Engineer
Life Science and Spectroscopy Solutions
Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH
9.1.2014

“Your software “Virtual Lab” is just unique and amazing in the way that it makes abstraction of mathematic or physics complexity behind. The interface and using experience is very simple and intuitive. Therefore it becomes, more straightforward to focus on the engineering tasks and physics interpretations than the underlying mathematics or modeling”. I have been myself working on similar concept during my thesis, but implemented on Matlab at that time (~10 years ago), so having this tool now is like having a dream which became reality.”

Dr. Mandiaye NDAO
Senior Expert
Altran GmbH & Co. KG
Frankfurt, Germany
08.07.2013

"Virtuallab is a powerful and versatile tool for modeling of optical systems especially at scales where wave optical effects becomes prominent. It has a well thought out user interface that is intuitive, flexible and easy to use. At IRDE, we use Virtuallab for accurate modeling of optical systems that have diffractive / micro-optical components."

Dr. A. N. Kaul
Head, Photonics Division
IRDE Dehradun
India
14.01.2013

"VirtualLab is a very powerful tool for the simulation and optimization of wave-optical problems. The results are highly accurate and reliable. The software handling is very intuitive and easy to learn. I use VirtualLab for both education and research projects."

Prof. Dr. Matthias Brinkmann
Fachhochschule Darmstadt
Fachbereich Mathematik/ Naturwissenschaften
Darmstadt, Germany
21.09.2012

„Wir verwenden LightTrans erfolgreich, um Speckleerscheinungen in diversen Anwendungen zu analysieren. Die Software ist gut zu bedienen, recht flexibel und schnell. Der technische Support bei allfälligen Fragen ist vorbildlich.“

„We apply LightTrans VirtualLab successfully for analyzing speckle phenomena in various applications. The software is easily operated, quite flexible and fast. The technical support in case of questions is excellent.“

Prof. Dr. Christoph Stamm
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
Winterthur, Switzerland
24.10.2012

"Some years ago, I had an idea for a software platform that would enable me to do my optical designs and translate them into photomasks. I envisioned files representing any complex field that could be displayed like a bitmap. And the user could simply press a button, and the software program would calculate the Fourier transform, or perhaps normalize the values, or whatever one needed doing. When I saw VirtualLab for the first time, I realized that this was the software platform that I was thinking of, and it already exists! You have saved me a lot of time and hard work, and done a far better job of it than I could have ever hoped."

Andrew Stockham
Optical Sciences Corporation
Huntsville, Alabama, USA
22.11.2012

“A perfect tool for calculating and optimizing micro optical components.”

Dr. Amir-Ahmad Saghiri
Carl-Zeiss Jena GmbH
Jena, Germany
12.10.2012

“Powerful software with a well thought-out interface and a highly competent speaker.”
(feedback after software training course)

Prof. Kevin Heggarty, M.Sc.
Télécom Bretagne, Departement d'Optique
Brest, France
12.10.2012

"We have been using the LightTrans VirtualLab Diffractive Toolbox for one year, and especially the design of diffractive and refractive beam shapers has never been easier before. VirtualLab has become our daily bread.”

Dr. Vit Lédl, Pavel Psota
TOPTEC / Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
Turnov, Czech Republic
31.10.2012