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Optics technology group Docter Optics is applying the technology used in the lenses for the LED headlights for the Cadillac Escalade to use on cameras for advanced driver safety systems.

The LED headlights used on the Escalade Platinum for high beam, low beam and daytime running lights are projected through seven free-form lenses developed by Docter Optics with headlight manufacturer Hella.

Docter says that projection lenses can now be economically produced in virtually shape or form. That also applies to free-form lenses, which are important for leading-edge automotive applications. This progress in technology is just as important for development in the area of conventional Xenon headlights as for LED technology.

The new reflection-free Auto-Tessar brand camera lenses use similar technology to enable producers of advanced driver assistance systems to use miniature camera lenses for the first time that use optical design to eliminate disturbing reflections, caused, for example, by light from oncoming traffic.

The potential for errors caused by veiling glare and reflections is reduced to virtually zero, which makes driver assistance systems more reliable and eliminates or reduces the need for electronic componentry.

Docter Optics is at the SAE World Congress this week with Auto-Tessar camera lenses in a special demonstration configuration.