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Photonium

Photonium

Founded by Jennifer Song in 2025

Automate optical system design and tolerancing using chat prompts and existing engineering files

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Requires Expertise

You can use Photonium to automate lens design and optical system engineering workflows. The software takes written specifications or existing design files and works directly with industry standards like Zemax and CODE V. It handles complex calculations, ray tracing, tolerancing, and Monte Carlo analyses in a conversational environment. Photonium also provides expert engineering support for applications in aerospace, quantum computing, medical devices, and consumer electronics, ensuring your designs move smoothly from initial concept through detailed tolerance analysis to final manufacturing handoff.

What Photonium does

Import and export native ZMX optical system filesExecute automated optical ray tracing calculationsGenerate spot diagrams and RMS wavefront error plotsCalculate Seidel aberration coefficientsRun Monte Carlo tolerancing analysesConfigure optical compensators for production handoffTrack design revisions and compare version historiesChat-driven interface for optical design explorationAutomated conversion of written specs and patents into optical modelsDirect integration and scripting with Zemax and CODE VAutomated ray tracing, wavefront error, and spot diagram calculationsMonte Carlo optical tolerancing and compensator modelingDirect export to native ZMX and CAD file formatsLive collaboration and version history for optical designs

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Zemax, CODE V, CAD, Zemax OpticStudio, SolidWorks (CAD), Autodesk Inventor, Python (API), Excel (BOM Export), SolidWorks, Python API, Microsoft Excel, Standard CAD Formats

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