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1) laser propagation - because FRED is one of the only raytracing software programs that can propagate coherent fields. >(YPkmH
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2) aerospace, stray light analysis etc. - because FRED has multiple accurate scatter models, and many useful tools (e.g. image artifact diagnostic tool, stray light reports etc). %K/G+
In addition to the above, the recent changes to the optimizer (v11.40) include many new merit functions that are suitable for the illumination industry (e.g. "Illumination Variance"). '8((;N|I^
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