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APEX Applications Items
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Masked Reflector Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example showing the creation of a stylized LED lamp. Demonstration includes component creation and assembly in APEX, and the addition of an LED source using the APEX Source Manager. Results are plotted and discussed for irradiance measured at a detector... |
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Binoculars Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of binoculars designed in APEX. Demonstration includes basic telescope imaging system combined with a pair of prisms to make one side of a pair of binoculars, related imaging system analyses, and mirroring of the system to make a full pair of binoculars. (Subtitle Languages: English,... |
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CPC Array Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of a compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) array designed in APEX. Demonstration includes an overview of CPC-unit construction, visualization of traced rays, and analysis of CPC irradiance and intensity output, followed by creation of CPC array and comparative... |
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Dobsonian Telescope Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of a Dobsonian telescope designed in APEX. Demonstration includes selection of individual parts and surfaces for ray tracing, assignment of optical properties including coatings, and visualization of traced rays. (Subtitle Languages: English,... |
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LED Down Lighting Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of an LED lighting system designed in APEX. Demonstration includes discussion of individual optical and mechanical components and their properties and analyses of irradiance and far-field intensity over multiple ray... |
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Lightpipes Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of lightpipes designed and analyzed in APEX. Demonstration includes circular pipe, rectangular pipe, tapered, and bent lightpipe designs, as well as numerous irradiance and intensity analyses used to compare the... |
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Multi-Element Reflector Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of a multi-element LED reflector design starting with reflector part creation in APEX. Demonstration includes creation of LED's and results plotted from far-field intensity analyses of the optical system. (Subtitle Languages: English,... |
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Parabolic Reflectors Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example showing the creation of several parabolic reflectors in APEX. Demonstration includes variants of reflectors created from a common parabolic construction curve as the starting point, evaluation of the irradiance and intensity distributions from each variation, and a discussion of... |
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Reversion Prism Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of an Abbe reversion prism designed in APEX. Demonstration includes an overview of Abbe prism construction, ray-trace settings, visualization of traced rays, and explanation of equation-based scaling for part reuse. (Subtitle Languages: English,... |
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Schmidt Telescope Designed in APEX (Demo Movie)An example of a Schmidt telescope designed in APEX. Demonstration includes creation of optically-significant geometry using the optical geometry features in APEX, visualization of ray traces, grid source definition, and analysis of the... |