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Formlight Optics
optics · imaging · illumination
Independent optical design consulting. Illumination, imaging, and freeform systems—from first-order layout through OpticStudio analysis and CAD handoff.
Services
Design, analysis, and a clean handoff
Scoped optical engineering—not a catalog of products. Each item below can stand alone or combine into a single engagement.
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Illumination design
Non-imaging systems: source-to-target mapping, light pipes, reflectors, and luminaire optics. Models include source files, collected flux, and uniformity against stated targets.
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Imaging systems
First-order layout through aberration and tolerance analysis. Sequential models for visible, NIR, and custom spectral bands.
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Freeform / inverse design
Surface generation against prescribed irradiance or wavefront targets—used when rotationally symmetric forms cannot meet the specification.
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OpticStudio analysis & CAD handoff
Ansys Zemax OpticStudio sequential and non-sequential models, merit functions, and tolerance budgets. Geometry export (STEP/IGES) for mechanical teams.
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Client reporting
Written assumptions, methods, results, and recommended next steps. Structured for internal review or a vendor RFQ—not a slide deck of claims.
Approach
How the work is framed
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Assumptions explicit
Every engagement starts with documented sources, constraints, wavelengths, and success criteria. Results are only as useful as the assumptions they rest on.
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Technical deliverables
Typical packages include OpticStudio files, analysis notes, CAD-ready surfaces, and a written report. Scope is agreed before work begins.
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Confidentiality
Client geometry, source data, and results stay with the engagement. NDAs are routine. No work is used as a public case study without permission.
About
A technical consulting practice
Formlight Optics is the client-facing DBA of Five Talent Consulting. The practice is optical engineering: design, analysis, and documentation for product teams that need an independent engineer—not a software product and not a fabrication house.
Engagements typically begin with a short scoping note: the problem statement, existing data, and the decision the analysis needs to support.
- Structure
- Formlight Optics · a DBA of Five Talent Consulting
- Practice
- Optical design and analysis consulting
- Engagement
- Project-based. Scope written before work starts.
Contact
Ready to discuss a system?
Write with wavelength band, source type, and the decision you need to make. The Formlight mailbox is not live yet—use the Five Talent Consulting address below.
bob@fivetalent.consulting