Your Partner for
AR, VR, and Beyond.

The optics industry is changing. Our mission is to provide the design automation tools necessary to support the industry through this change, bringing new and exciting technologies from early research all the way to global manufacturing and distribution.

Optical Design Automation (ODA) solutions for emerging technologies

Advanced Tooling

Our technical foundation is a suite of industry leading software for volumetric ray tracing, an approach that naturally includes three-dimensional changes to ray reference frames and polarizations in systems with complex geometry.

From rich exploration and analysis in Mathematica to scalable deployment in Python, Airy’s software packages are ready to meet a wide range of needs.

Polaris for Mathmatica
The Airy Ray Engine
Airy Multilayer

Trusted Experience

Airy was built on years of academic research, resulting in multiple dissertations and the seminal textbook on polarization effects in optical design.

From there, Airy has applied the theory of polarization raytracing in all areas of optics, including microscopy, sensing, lithography, near-eye displays, and plastic optics. We have helped customers from across the industry explore new concepts, understand their systems, build optimization and tolerancing pipelines, and ultimately produce better systems on-time and under-budget.

Application Engineering

Future-Forward

While optics software has long been dominated by an emphasis on single workstations, fixed workflows, and black-box physics, Airy is building towards a future where optical tools are made to serve the user and not the other way around.

Airy’s tools provide a thoroughly tested and verified backbone for models and simulations, but are designed to be modified and reconfigured along with the products they are modeling. In our opinion, this is the only path to true end-to-end modeling for multi-scale and multi-domain systems.

Airy Optical Platform

Trusted By

Vision

Building for the future of ODA

The optics and photonics industry needs more than tools. It needs a way to link tools together, building pipelines for end-to-end modeling, manufacturing-aware design, and seamless testing and deployment. We are in the process of building that vision, with direct input from our customers.

Airy Optical Platform

Executive Team

  • Russell Chipman

    Founder | PhD

  • Jonathan Heinz

    President | PhD

  • Ashu Chaturvedi

    VP of Solutions | PhD

Mission and Leadership

Building
With Our Customers

Airy develops tools to solve new and challenging problems, which can only happen in close partnership with our customers. Contact us today so we can evolve optical technology together!