Illumination

There is strong shadow where there is much light (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen). We can help you to get the light where it belongs and exile the shadows.

Whether your challenge is compliance with a particular illumination norm or a special design oriented light distribution we have the experience and the tools to get it.

Our portfolio covers the development of lamps with illumination patterns defined by legal regulations like desk lamps for offices, medical lamps e.g. for operation theatres or headlights in the automotive industry. We can also provide photorealistic renderings before the first prototype is built, to see that the solution not just fulfils the requirements but also how it looks in real life.

Road crossing illuminated by a standard automotive high beam headlight.
State of the art (in 2022) illumination of a road crossing by a standard low beam / high beam combination simulated with LucidDrive.
*doi: 10.1117/12.3014257
Road crossing illuminated by Gerg Nanolight high beam.
Improved illumination of the road crossing by a standard low beam / Gerg Nanolight high beam combination.
Enhanced visibility of distant objects. The animals and people on the side shoulder can be clearly recognised as well as the barricade at the end of the road.
*doi: 10.1117/12.3014257

Our toolbox includes:

  • LucidShape, Synopsys
  • LucidDrive, Synopsys
  • Speos, Ansys
  • FRED, Photon Engineering
  • SolidWorks, Dassault Systèmes

Another area is ambient lighting where we have worked with automotive customers on car interior-, dashboard- and instrument lighting. Complex illumination requirements often demand the application of light guides. We cover all aspects of light guide design, i.e.

  • guiding light to particular areas
  • areal distribution of light
  • uniform light extraction over non planar surfaces
Car dashboard with inhomogeneous instrument illumination by light guides.
Draft version of a car dashboard with instrument illumination by light guides as received from the customer. Photorealistic visualisation with LucidShape.
The inhomogeneous extraction of light along the illumination rings is clearly visible.
**Photonik 3/2012
Car dashboard with homogeneous instrument illumination by light guides.
The car dashboard with an optimised version of the light guides.
The result was achieved by partitioned modification of the light guide surface structure.
The extraction of light along the illumination rings is almost perfectly homogeneous.
**Photonik 3/2012

*doi: 10.1117/12.3014257 Development of cost-efficient micro-optics for headlight systems, SPIE Optical Systems Design 2024
**Photonik 3/2012 Kopplung von Raytracern mit Spezialsoftware