Photonium Insight + custom automation
Run more design iterations
Insight enables optical engineers to go from spec to toleranced design without hand-assembling merit functions or writing the automation scripts themselves. It writes and runs the scripts, executes the analyses and optimization, and proposes design changes that are applied once approved. It drives Zemax, CODE V, or in-house tools and the macros and merit function templates your team already uses rather than replacing them.
Photonium Insight
What Insight automates
Chat-driven design environment
A complete optical design environment you run by chatting with a frontier LLM.
1:1 Zemax file compatibility
Native .ZMX import and export, so files move in and out of your existing Zemax workflow unchanged.
Prescriptions from patents
Upload a patent and get a working prescription back automatically, with units converted.
Analysis on request
Request any analysis in plain language and Insight runs and presents the result: ray trace, spot & RMS WFE, MTF, PSF, Seidel coefficients, RMS vs. Field.
Aberration diagnosis
Insight identifies the limiting aberration and what’s driving it, the diagnosis an engineer normally works out from ray fans, OPD, MTF, and Seidel terms.
Read the researchOptimization & tolerancing
Describe what to optimize or tolerance and Insight builds the merit function and runs it, in Zemax, CODE V, or our own optimization engine.
Progress
Photonium Insight launch
Chat-driven optical design environment with native Zemax import and export
Design capability
Product features
Hydrangea design generation neural network
Our reimplementation of Côté et al. (2021): a neural network that proposes lens starting points from an f/# and HFOV spec
Opt. Express 29, 3841 (2021)Geary’s textbook evals
Every design task from Introduction to Lens Design with Practical ZEMAX Examples solved to spec
Bring your own Zemax
Full Zemax support on your own OpticStudio license
Dilworth (2013), 11 elements
0.35 NA microscope objective designed to the diffraction limit over two UV wavelengths
Proc. SPIE 8841Tolerancing
Monte Carlo yield, sensitivity analysis, and inverse tolerancing
Aspheric camera lens design
A 80° FOV, f/2.0, 4.55 mm EFL camera lens designed to the diffraction limit, significantly better than the result achieved in the paper
Nat. Commun. 15, 6572ISO 10110 fabrication drawings
Per-element prints and assembly drawings generated from the design
Stock lens catalog
Search Edmund, Thorlabs, and other vendor catalogs and drop parts straight into a design
1990 IODC lens design problem
A 30° FOV, f/3, 100 mm EFL lens from 4 BK7 elements, beating out the first-place solution
Proc. SPIE 1354Ease of use
Drag-and-drop elements, click-to-edit sliders with live preview, and side-by-side analysis windows
Feb 2026
Photonium Insight launch
Chat-driven optical design environment with native Zemax import and export
Mar 2026
Product
Hydrangea design generation neural network
Our reimplementation of Côté et al. (2021): a neural network that proposes lens starting points from an f/# and HFOV spec
Opt. Express 29, 3841 (2021)May 2026
Design
Design
Geary’s textbook evals
Every design task from Introduction to Lens Design with Practical ZEMAX Examples solved to spec
Product
Product
Bring your own Zemax
Full Zemax support on your own OpticStudio license
Jun 2026
Design
Dilworth (2013), 11 elements
0.35 NA microscope objective designed to the diffraction limit over two UV wavelengths
Proc. SPIE 8841Product
Tolerancing
Monte Carlo yield, sensitivity analysis, and inverse tolerancing
Product
Jul 2026
Design
Aspheric camera lens design
A 80° FOV, f/2.0, 4.55 mm EFL camera lens designed to the diffraction limit, significantly better than the result achieved in the paper
Nat. Commun. 15, 6572Product
ISO 10110 fabrication drawings
Per-element prints and assembly drawings generated from the design
Product
Stock lens catalog
Search Edmund, Thorlabs, and other vendor catalogs and drop parts straight into a design
Aug 2026
Design
Design
1990 IODC lens design problem
A 30° FOV, f/3, 100 mm EFL lens from 4 BK7 elements, beating out the first-place solution
Proc. SPIE 1354Product
Ease of use
Drag-and-drop elements, click-to-edit sliders with live preview, and side-by-side analysis windows
How we deploy
Map
We sit with your optical engineers and trace one workflow end-to-end: RFQ feasibility, design setup, optimization, tolerancing, or factory handoff.
Integrate
We connect to the files, scripts, templates, and review documents your team already uses, and keep them as they are.
Automate
We build the automation for that workflow, shaped to your standards.
Prove
A short pilot on one live problem, under NDA, in your environment. You measure the engineering time it saves before going further.
Scope one workflow.
Start with a single workflow, scoped with your team and run under NDA.