Global Optical Design Software Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global Optical Design Software Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Optical Design software provides an optical designer with a set of tools to evaluate and test the performance of an optical system or apparatus. Optical designers can start with a suitable design or idea, based on what they want to achieve and their own experience and expertise, and the software can be used to analyse and optimise this idea, to ensure the required performance can be achieved. It is commonly done with a set of visualization tools and a list of activities for the creation of an optical system.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global Optical Design Software market finds that the global Optical Design Software market reached a value of USD 189.73 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 321.71 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 9.2% during the forecast period.

Growth in demand for automotive, security, mobile phone cameras, etc. drives industry development

As high-volume optical manufacturing has come to the forefront of many industries and applications, the importance of designing to improve as-built performance has risen. Considering the ubiquity of lens modules, camera modules in security, automotive, consumer electronics, medical and other applications, this drives the need and usage of many high-volume optical manufacturing designs. For example, with the development of smartphone technology, mobile phone cameras have developed from rear cameras to front and rear dual cameras, and from one camera to multiple cameras. The field of security is also gradually developing, ranging from public security cameras to home cameras. The development of these industries has greatly promoted the growth of the market demand for Optical Design Software.

Optical Design Software is significant in education

Optics has become an increasingly important discipline. In theoretical teaching, a large number of complex optical path diagrams, optical system structure diagrams, and practical optical component diagrams are different from general schematic diagrams, requiring high accuracy, and sometimes involving space light, which greatly increases classroom teaching. The difficulty also affects the teaching effect. When teaching the imaging process of the optical system, the traditional teaching methods cannot give the actual imaging device and imaging process, and when encountering a complex optical system, it is impossible to quantitatively draw the optical path diagram, nor can it give its dynamics. imaging process. Using Optical Design Software, the optical path, optical components involved in the course, and then to the optical system, and even practical to optical instruments, can be accurately constructed in the form of three-dimensional entities (this is one of the basic functions of optical design software). Compared with the two-dimensional schematic diagrams used in traditional teaching, the accuracy of these construction examples is greatly improved, and even rises to the optical level, and the high visualization and precise accuracy can ensure the effect of virtual simulation and greatly enhance the teaching effect. Therefore, Optical Design Software is also of great significance to the field of education.

Region Overview:

In 2021, the share of the Optical Design Software market in United States stood at 49.38%.

Company Overview:

ANSYS, Synopsys, Excelitas Technologies were the top 3 players in the Optical Design Software market in 2022, taking up a market share of 64.20% together.

Segmentation Overview:

Among different product types, Cloud Based segment is anticipated to contribute the largest market share in 2027.

Application Overview:

By application, the Optical Imaging Systems segment occupied the biggest share from 2017 to 2022.

Key Companies in the global Optical Design Software market covered in Chapter 3:

LTI Optics
Excelitas Technologies
BeamXpert
Photon Engineering
Breault Research Organization
Lambda Research Corporation
LightTrans Application
ANSYS
Synopsys
Optiwave Systems

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the Optical Design Software market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

On-premises
Cloud Based

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the Optical Design Software market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Optical Imaging Systems
Lasers and Fibers
Lighting and Illumination
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)