Previous News Items from Contrast Optical:

October 2007
Nora Tocci and Contrast Optical join the Northern New Mexico chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).

Contrast Optical joins the New Mexico Optics Industry Association (NMOIA).

July 2007
Mike Tocci, Ph.D. and John Dunbar become full-time employees of CODE Inc. Over the past two years Mike and John have been doing double duty. They have been running CODE, Inc while keeping a seperate day job. No longer! CODE, Inc has suffcient work load and proposal backlog to allow for two full-time employees and three additional part-time employees. Our projects range from commercial lens design to energy-efficient solar solutions to novel opthalmalogic device design.

May 2007
The Opto-Mechanical Sections of the website are currently being updated with examples. The first example, Design Considerations and Assembly Notes of a Fixed-Focus Sensor can be read in the Opto-Mechanical Services section of the website. We hope you enjoy our examples found throughout the site. Feel free to send us comments via our contact page.

Mike Tocci's fourth ZEMAX KB Article , "Quantifying Veiling Glare" was published on May 25th. Downloadable versions of all our articles can be found in the ELibrary.

April 2007
On April 26th, Mike Tocci publishes his third article for the ZEMAX Knowledge Base titled "How to Model the Human Eye in ZEMAX".

CODE's new website is up and running. The new site now features some select examples of our work with ZEMAX. In the coming months we will update it with more examples of our work with SolidWorks and information on our Control Systems capabilities. We hope you like the new site and find it very informative. Feel free to give us feedback via our contact page.

January 2007
CODE is working with the local University to put together the first windows super-cluster specifically designed to run ZEMAX at extraordinary speeds. CODE will have access to this computing power once it arrives and will work with the University and community to bring optical design and analysis to the forefront in New Mexico.

February 2007
CODE completed a final report for a proprietary customer that has a new and exciting contact lens shape. Mike Tocci used ZEMAX in new and novel ways to perform this detailed and complicated analysis. You can read a non-proprietary version of the CODE final report here or go to our ELibrary for more articles.

2006 Highlights
Mike Tocci published two papers for the ZEMAX Knowledge base. You can download Mike's article on Off-axis parabolas and Frustrated Total Internal Reflection from CODE's ELibrary or the ZEMAX Knowledge Base.