Synopsys Announces Winners of Optical Design Competition

Synopsys has announced the winners of the 2019 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. The annual competition is open to students in North America working toward a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree and who are using Synopsys’ optical software to conduct optical design and engineering research.

This year, the company has granted awards to students from Columbia University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and the University of Rochester.

Out of the contest came new designs for car headlights; cinema lenses; photonic links; camera lenses for oceanography, IR imaging, and thermal imaging; and more.

For more information about the competition, visit http://optics.synopsys.com/learn/learn-design-competition.html.