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ZEMAX is Powerful, Accurate and Easy to Use Software for all Aspects of Optical System Design

ZEMAX is the software that optical engineers and designers around the world choose for lens design, illumination, laser beam propagation, stray light, freeform optical design and many other applications. ZEMAX leads the industry in technical power, ease of use and proven accuracy. Whatever kind of optical system design problem you have, ZEMAX can help.

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The April 14 2010 release of ZEMAX is now available in 64-bit and 32-bit editions.

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Getting Started Using ZEMAX
The Getting Started Using ZEMAX guide (4 MB, PDF) will get you started using ZEMAX quickly. It is the first place to start if you are new to ZEMAX, or if you are returning to it after having not used ZEMAX for some time. You may learn something even if you have used ZEMAX for many years!  

Knowledge Base Article of the Month

August 2010:  How to Model Corner-Cube Reflectors.

Corner Cube retroreflectors are commonly used in a wide range of optical systems. This article shows various different ways in which these components can be modeled in ZEMAX. The treatment can be as detailed as the user needs, with effects due to face misalignment, roofline straddling, thin-film coatings, diffraction etc included as required. More...