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Your eyes can’t be fooled for long. They notice variations in brightness, banding, hotspots, and other imperfections. That’s why lighting professionals work hard to achieve illuminance uniformity in commercial LED lighting projects. Uniformly lit surfaces appear even, with same brightness at all points—such as up the full length of a building façade or along a wall in a large retail store.
Let’s just call it beautifully even light. And the technology that creates it? OptiField.
OptiField delivers the kind of even illuminance that lighting professionals have dreamed of for years. It opens up new possibilities for innovative lighting effects that were nearly impossible in the past. And now it’s available with a growing number of our white and dynamic color luminaires.
Like perfection, uniformity is difficult to achieve in the real world. When lighting gets noticed, it’s often for the wrong reasons. Visitors might see bands of light along the side of a landmark building. Retail customers might see glaring hotspots on the walls. These flaws distract the eye and diminish the experience. Even the most fantastic design will fail if it’s marred by lapses in uniformity.
With OptiField, flaws and artifacts disappear. Its unconventional optical system outputs a breakthrough beam shape that illuminates large surfaces with full, bright, even coverage. No more guesswork. No more time-consuming on-site aiming. No more struggling to meld overlapping cones of light from multiple light sources.
OptiField’s exceptional uniformity makes buildings look more pleasing and interior spaces more welcoming. OptiField truly shines in retail spaces, building façades, hotels and casinos, and other high-visibility, high-traffic interior or exterior locations. Anywhere that needs beautifully even light—that’s where you need OptiField.
Our team of engineers, optical experts, and other innovators began with one goal—to output extremely even, uniform light. The ideal shape they envisioned was a vertical rectangular field of even light with carefully controlled fading at its edges, enabling easier integration of multiple luminaires. Achieving this optimal beam pattern required specialized software and tools, as well as a great deal of experimentation and testing. And meticulous manufacturing to produce these optics consistently, at high volume. In short, it was a lot of work.
The result of our years of intense research and development? A dome-shaped optic that delivers a new beam shape—and remarkably uniform light. When lighting professionals see an OptiField luminaire in action, they’re amazed by what they see—even, bright, beautiful light. And by what they don’t see—hotspots, banding, color variation, and other flaws.
Energy Efficiency. OptiField is an energy-efficient technology that directs light to the intended surface with high delivered lumens—as well as lower energy consumption. High efficiency delivers savings and helps meet stringent energy codes.
Design Flexibility. You’ll find OptiField integrated into a wide range of Color Kinetics luminaires optimized for specific applications—including wall grazing and wall washing. It’s available in different form factors and setbacks, and can be easily aimed to meet a broad set of challenges, wall types, and orientations (vertical/horizontal). This high level of flexibility ensures broad applicability across a wide range of applications, architectures, and implementations.
Any new technology inherently raises questions about how to use it to its best advantage. Since OptiField creates a new beam shape (and resulting pattern), it merits a closer look at how to get the best possible results. Review the specific luminaire Specification Sheet for details such as setback distances, and luminaire rotation.
Lighting designers tell us that OptiField and IntelliHue offer a particularly compelling combination of uniformity and flexibility. OptiField creates walls of light that cover surfaces evenly and beautifully. IntelliHue delivers millions of saturated colors, pastels, and uniform white light, all with unrivaled color accuracy, all from the same luminaire.
Consider the possibilities. Thanks to the carefully controlled edges of the OptiField beam, you can light a wall or other surface with sharply delineated vertical bands of color (e.g., red, white, and blue) without bleeding and unintended color-mixing. You can create spaces lit with flawless white light by day and beautiful color at night—with complete accuracy across the entire range of color temperatures.
No matter what the design or application, OptiField and IntelliHue combine to deliver uniform light with precision control. And help you achieve your singular vision.
Where consistency begins.
Our LED optimization technology begins the color consistency process by grouping
LEDs by flux as well as center wavelength.
Optimize color consistency and saturation.
Our advanced output optimization technology represents a major leap forward in color consistency and accuracy and simplicity.
