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.
We have a new Getting Started Using ZEMAX guide (4 MB, PDF) to 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!
Customer Video of the Month
February 2010:Optics for Hire's Anatoli Trafumik demonstrates how to design an LED collimating lens using ZEMAX.
