Keysight Optical Design Engineering

Meet Kyle Miller, Ph.D.—one of the brilliant minds behind our R&D team!

Kyle works on advancing high-performance computing for our optical design software, helping make simulations faster and more powerful. Before joining us, Kyle developed cutting-edge algorithms to model complex laser and plasma interactions—some with speed improvements of over 1000×!

Outside of work, Kyle is a musician (saxophone, clarinet, and piano 🎷), enjoys basketball, board games, and spending time with family.

Great to be part of Rochester Optical Design Day at the University of Rochester last month on May 18.

Optical designers and engineers at the event focused on practical challenges and emerging opportunities in optical system design. We covered:

- What’s new in CODE V, including the Accelerated Custom Tolerancing (usertol) capability
- Insights and real-world perspectives from our Optical Engineering Services team
- Recent updates across LightTools, ImSym, RSoft, and VisionSym

Most valuable was the dialogue—hearing how teams are approaching system-level complexity, tolerancing workflows, and integration across optical and photonic design environments.

Thanks to everyone who joined the event and spent time connecting with us. Events like this reinforce how important it is to bring the community together to exchange ideas and push the field forward.

For the optics community in Arizona!
The University of Arizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences

Onto's 4D Technology is proud to sponsor the 2026 International Day of Light Celebration presented by Optics Valley! Celebrate with us at this full-day event, designed to inspire curiosity in kids and families and highlight the power of light in our daily lives and future technologies.

📅 Sunday, May 17
📍 Tucson, Arizona | Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium
🌟 Hands-on family-friendly activities, demos and exhibits to explore the science of optics and photonics
🔗 Free to attend: https://lnkd.in/g9sdBA8u

The International Day of Light is a UNESCO global initiative to celebrate light and the role it plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, astronomy, and clean energy.

Students, the deadline is next month! Keysight Optical Design Engineering invites you to participate in the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition, recognizing excellence in student optical design projects completed during the 2025–2026 academic year.

Eligible undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students in North America may submit course assignments or thesis work developed using CODE V, LightTools, LucidShape, ImSym, or RSoft Photonic Device Tools.

💸Awards totaling $20,000 will be granted.

⭐ Submission deadline: June 15, 2026

Learn more about eligibility, rules, and submission requirements:
🔗 https://ow.ly/mJRb50YAXSc

✨ Join us at our annual LucidShape User Group Meeting in Munich, Germany. This year’s meeting features presentations on the latest developments in LucidShape products, as well as selected topics ranging from lighting design applications to technical aspects of simulation. You can learn from and network with other users as well as the Keysight team.

You are also invited to join us on June 8 for an evening reception with complimentary food and drinks.

There is no charge to attend this event, but registration is required.

📅June 8 & 9, 2026
🚨Registration on https://ow.ly/cI1750YW0FU

✨ Join us for our Introduction to Illumination Using LightTools in Aschheim, Germany !

This training provides a practical, application‑focused introduction to designing, simulating, and analyzing illumination systems using LightTools®. Participants will learn foundational principles of non‑imaging optics and apply them through hands‑on modeling exercises and real‑world examples.

📅 May 18 - 21, 2026
🚨Seats are limited !
👉 Registration on https://ow.ly/5K2a50YVqwA

📘Good read for anyone working with imaging systems: Modeling the Imaging Chain of Digital Cameras by Brian Fiete (SPIE)

This book is a great reminder that an optical system is more than just the lens. While a lot of time is usually spent optimizing optics, other parts of the system—like the detector or signal processing—can end up being the real performance bottleneck.

It does a nice job walking through the full imaging chain, from scene radiometry all the way to data processing, and explains how each stage affects the final image. Very practical, very systems‑level thinking.

A solid recommendation for anyone in optics who wants to better understand how real imaging systems behave end to end. 👌Recommended by our optical engineers on staff.

Available via : https://spie.org/Publications/Book/1100143



SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

✨ Last Call to Join us for our CODE V Optical Design Day, Aschheim, Germany !

The Keysight CODE V Optical Design Day provides an in‑depth update on the latest advancements in the optical design software CODE V.

During the event, we will present recent developments in CODE V, including enhanced interoperability between CODE V and ImSym. You’ll also get an introduction to ImSym, our newly announced, groundbreaking virtual prototyping platform for imaging systems. In addition, we will share a New Features Overview of LightTools and VisionSym.

📅 May 8, 2026
🚨Seats are limited !
👉 Registration on https://ow.ly/PfPr50YUt3I

Students! Keysight Optical Design Engineering invites you to participate in the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition, recognizing excellence in student optical design projects completed during the 2025–2026 academic year.

Eligible undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students in North America may submit course assignments or thesis work developed using CODE V, LightTools, LucidShape, ImSym, or RSoft Photonic Device Tools. Awards totaling $20,000 will be granted.

⭐ Submission deadline: June 15, 2026

Learn more about eligibility, rules, and submission requirements:
🔗 https://ow.ly/mJRb50YAXSc

✨ Join us for our CODE V Optical Design Day, Aschheim, Germany !

The Keysight CODE V Optical Design Day provides an in‑depth update on the latest advancements in the optical design software CODE V.

During the event, we will present recent developments in CODE V, including enhanced interoperability between CODE V and ImSym. You’ll also get an introduction to ImSym, our newly announced, groundbreaking virtual prototyping platform for imaging systems. In addition, we will share a New Features Overview of LightTools and VisionSym.

📅 May 8, 2026
🚨Seats are limited !
👉 Registration on https://ow.ly/oQlB50YQY6w