FRED-Tutorial 2010

3-day Tutorial : 5. October - 7. October

4-day Tutorial : 5. October - 8. October

  Please also pay attention to our Stray Light Short Course!

 

We would like to invite you to our FRED-practical training in Herrsching. The training takes place from October 5th to October 8th 2010.

In this training you will do practical exercises with the current FRED-version on your own notebook and you will learn about the features and the background of the software.

The training is identical to the courses in Tucson, Arizona. The training is held by an instructor of Photon Engineering.


Topics covered during the 3-day Tutorial include:

  • The FRED Philosophy – Visualization is key to understanding optical engineering problems
  • Navigating the user interface including interface customization
  • Using visualization features to create technically meaningful, visually stunning graphics
  • Building and modifying geometry using FRED’s interface
  • Importing geometry from lens design and CAD programs
  • Exporting geometry and traced rays to CAD programs
  • Working with surface attributes including coatings, scatter models, and raytrace controls
  • Creating coherent and incoherent sources
  • Using raytrace tools including single, targeted raytrace; sequential/non-sequential raytracing
  • Constructing analysis surfaces and ray filtering
  • Computing irradiance, intensity distributions; image formation; illumination analyses; power (throughput) calculations; color images; polarization analyses; ghost image formation; stray light analyses; thermal radiometry
  • Digitizing coating transmission/reflection plots, geometry, spectral weighting, and refractive index data
  • Extending FRED’s capabilities using its compiled BASIC scripting language
  • FRED as automation client/server

Topics covered during the optional 4th day Tutorial include:

  • Relationship between FRED and BASIC compiler
  • Accessing data with nodes and structures
  • Reading and manipulating data
  • Basic and advanced raytracing
  • Using ray buffers
  • Performing energy calculations
  • Using pre-update and post-update scripts
  • Mastering automation w/COM: FRED as client or server
  • Rastering calculations
  • Using scripted entities

Hardware/Software
The training is including a current version of FRED standard including USB-dongle and documentation for the complete duration of the training. We kindly ask you to use your own notebook (minimum hardware requirements: 1 GHz CPU, Windows XP, 256 MB RAM) for the training.
 

Title

FRED-Anwendertraining

Date of Training

3-day Tutorial: 5. October - 7. October, 1.990,- EUR
4-day Tutorial: 5. October - 8. October, 2.490,- EUR

Deadline Registration

September 15th, 2010

Duration

Daily from 9.00 am to approx. 5.00 pm

Place of Training

Hotel Andechser Hof, Zum Landungssteg, 82211 Herrsching am Ammersee (near Munich),
www.andechser-hof.de

Attendance fee

Price for 3 days Tutorial: EUR 1.990,00 + 19% VAT
Price for 4 days Tutorial: EUR 2.490,00 + 19% VAT
Including FRED-Software during the Tutorial, User Manual, Coffee Breaks, Drinks and Lunch

Registration

 


Online

or send your registration to Mrs. Victoria Benedikt:

v.benedikt@laser2000.de or by Fax: +49 (0)8153/405-33

Note

Registrations or cancellations are only accepted in written form. For cancellation of the written registration before deadline of registration half of the attendance fee will be credited. The attendance fee will be completely charged if we receive the cancellation after the deadline for the registration.
The minimum number of attendees is 7 persons. Therefore Laser 2000 reserves the right to cancel the tutorial.

This training is including tutorials on your own notebook with the current version of FRED standard. The training is identical to the trainings held in Tucson, Arizona.

After your registration you will receive a confirmation. The invoice will be sent to the company address via post, if there is no other instruction on your registration.

Your registration will be confirmed under conditional acceptance. You can reach the hotel for the training via S-Bahn from Munich (Line S8).

We are looking forward to welcome you at the FRED training in Herrsching.