Understanding 2023-Jul-10

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 Here, you can book the online course on "Understanding Light for Illumination",
July 10, 12, 13, 2023
July 17, 19, 21, 2023
July 24, 26, 28, 2023
17:00 -- 20:00 (Central European Time)
after you have registered at Synopsys https://www.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/support/training/illumination-basics.html

Booking Information

 This course is organized and hosted by Synopsys, Inc. If you have not been redirected here after registering with Synopsys, please register there first: https://www.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/support/training/illumination-basics.html. You will then be redirected back here. Your contact information and your amount paid will be shared with Synopsys, Inc. 

Course Details

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This nine-day online short course explains the deep, beautiful, and immensely useful theory of light for illumination. If you wonder what étendue really is, and why it is so useful, this course is for you. Practical exercises and examples are an integral part of the course. They show how the theory lets us see what can or cannot be done in illumination optics, and how the same theory guides us towards viable solutions. A basic working knowledge of optics is assumed. 

By the end of the course you will be able to

  • understand and apply the concept of étendue to practical problems
  • compute étendue even in complex cases, using illumination ray tracing software
  • connect the dots between flux, intensity, illuminance and luminance
  • determine LED luminance from common data sheet values
  • use étendue, luminance and flux information to determine feasibility from first principles and to find promising design approaches.


Attendees do not need LightTools/Lucidshape or other ray tracing software installed.