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If you want to submit a file, just attach it to an email message, and send it to support@zemax.com. Place the words "File For Public Domain" in the Subject field of your message. (Click here for details.) Files Contributed By ZEMAX Users aoi, aor table.zpl Georg Nadorff: May 20, 2002 "Table of angles of incidence and exitance for each surface for a specific ray." aoi_coatings.zpl Georg Nadorff: May 20, 2002 "Handy-dandy table of maximum angles of incidence for specifying coating ranges of angles for axially symmetric systems." GOST.TPD Anton Prytkov: February 23, 2002 "Test plates per Russian GOST 1807-75. All lenses made in Russia, Belarus, and other countries of the former USSR are made with these test plate radii. Example factories include, "LOMO", St. Petersburg, Russia and "BelOMO", Minsk, Belarus." GOST.AGF Anton Prytkov: February 18, 2002 "Glass catalog per Russian GOST 13659-78. Includes colourless optical glass, physical and chemical properties, and basic parameters. (GOsudarstvenniy STandart = State Standard.) All the glass factories of the former USSR produce glasses under this standard." ZemaxDelphi.zip Pierre Mertz: November 13, 2001 "Delphi VCL component which implements Zemax Extensions DDE communications. This allows a Delphi application to use Zemax as a ray tracing engine. Use component directly or inherit from it to make more specific ray tracing components." HH'.zmx Vincent Thominet: November 2, 2001 "Optical system defined by its principal planes. The ABCD matrix is a translation one with Bx = By = - THIC(Paraxial - Matrix)." Roofprism.zmx Kees Moddemeijer: May 30, 2001 "Model of a roofprism using sequential raytracing (SE and XE-users) and hyperbolic reflecting surfaces with very small radii." ZernikePlot.zpl Rob H. Webb: February 5, 2004 "Changes the Zernike Fringe coefficients to OSA set. Some positions are unfilled, and a * is plotted." multifocal.dll James Sutter: May 1, 2000 "Multifocal user defined surface (DLL). Models inner and outer zones with different curvatures used for bifocal contact lenses, IOLs, and laser machining applications." Offner_Spectrometers.zmx Francis Reininger: November 26, 1999 "Derivatives from the first miniature, low distortion Offner spectrometer on Cassini headed for Saturn. Only 10 nm distortion (<0.1% of pixel width) along a 16 mm slit. Nyquist spectral sampling is 5nm. Hit Ctrl+A to see positive order design. Performance improves with size, but distortion scales as cube of image area." Draw surfaces 2 through 8. AOPfiles.zip Dan Schroeder: October 15, 1999 Example optical systems, contributed by the author, for the figures in the book "Astronomical Optics" 2nd edition, 1999. AOP0406.zmx F/2 Spherical Mirror AOP0503.zmx f/2.5 Spherical Mirror, Mag = -1 AOP0509.zmx F/2.5 Paraboloid, Stop @ Focus AOP0521.zmx Ebert-Fastie Configuration AOP0602.zmx Classical Cassegrain AOP0603.zmx Ritchey-Chretien AOP0608.zmx Ritchey-Chretien - Misaligned AOP0609.zmx Ritchey-Chretien - Misaligned (2) AOP0612.zmx Paul-Baker Flat-field, F/2.19 AOP0613.zmx Korsch Flat-field, F/4.5 AOP0614.zmx Korsch 2-axis Flat-field, F/12 AOP0615.zmx Robb Flat-field, F/5 AOP0616.zmx Four-Mirror 2-axis Telescope AOP0617.zmx Four-Mirror 2-axis Telescope, Type 2 AOP0709.zmx Achromatic Schmidt, F/2.5 AOP0907.zmx Ritchey-Chretien + Gascoigne Plate AOP0908.zmx Ritchey-Chretien + Gascoigne Plate AOP0913a.zmx ADC, Maximum Dispersion (tilts exaggerated) AOP0913b.zmx ADC, Minimum Dispersion (tilts exaggerated) AOP0914.zmx ADC, Collimated Light, Maximum Dispersion AOP0915.zmx ADC, F/4 Beam, Maximum Dispersion AOP0916.zmx ADC, F/4 Beam, Minimum Dispersion AOP0918.zmx ADC, F/4 Beam, w/o Chromatic Error AOP0919.zmx F/6 Ritchey-Chretien + ADC AOP1013.zmx F/5 Paraboloid w/ Defocus, A20 = 0.25 AOP1014.zmx F/5 Paraboloid w/ Defocus, A20 = 0.75 AOP1016.zmx F/5 Sphere @ Diffraction Focus, A40 = 1 AOP1017.zmx F/5 Sphere @ Diffraction Focus, A40 = 3 AOP1118.zmx HST - Actual Post Launch Coating_INDICES1.ZPL Boyd Hunter: October 7, 1999 This macro determines the refractive index values at the 0.7 radial zone to use when AR coating a GRADIUM lens. trischeif.zmx Matthew Heino: September 16, 1999 "An example of a Kutter type Tri-Scheifspeigler telescope. A type known by astronomers to have excellent image quality for planetary objects." MeshTrans.zpl Mike Jones: September 9, 1999 "Macro is not optics oriented, but is a handy routine for calculating the amount of EMI shielding from a conductively gridded window or lens." See comments in macro for details. Spotdia.zpl David Koren: April 8, 1999 "This macro uses Point Spread Function data to compute the diffraction spot diameter at the 1/e^2 points along the x-axis and the y-axis for various field angles." protar7a.zmx Jim Lynch: April 8, 1999 Series VIIa United States Patent 1,021,337, 1912 March 26 (Zeiss) from Greenleaf "Photographic Optics" 1950. orthostigmat.zmx Jim Lynch: April 8, 1999 German Patent 88,505, 1893 November 28 from Greenleaf "Photographic Optics" 1950. dagor.zmx Jim Lynch: April 8, 1999 U.S. Patent 528,155; 1894 October 30 (Goerz) from Greenleaf "Photographic Optics" 1950. protar.zmx Jim Lynch: April 8, 1999 U.S. Patent 895,045; 1908 August 4 (Zeiss) from Greenleaf "Photographic Optics" 1950. antiplanet.zmx Jim Lynch: April 8, 1999 "German Patent 16,354; 1882 January 26 (Steinheil) from Greenleaf "Photographic Optics" 1950. Zonesize.zpl Dan Brown: April 7, 1999 "Macro used when designing diffractive optics with Binary_1 and Binary_2 surfaces. It gives diffractive zone size as a function of position. To include zone size constraints in the merit function, the algorithm in subroutine "Test" is more appropriate." VoltM.zpl, Cmplxndx.zpl Mike Jones: April 2, 1999 VoltM converts watts/cm^2 to volts/m, and Cmplxndx converts constitutive parameters to complex index. artus.zpl Mike Jones: April 2, 1999 Macro lists Artus shim plates by color code raytrace.zpl Bob Householder: April 1, 1999 "Calculates chief ray coordinates for each field angle." radius.zpl Bob Householder: April 1, 1999 "Changes the radius based on tolerance in fringes. Useful for tolerance analysis. References Malacara "Optical Shop Testing" p. 16." depth.zpl Bob Householder: April 1, 1999 "Calculates depth of focus for the system based on several sources for the equation." spot_sz.zpl Bob Householder: April 1, 1999 "Computes Gaussian Beam Diameter after each element." trce_ape.zpl Bob Householder: April 1, 1999 "Traces single ray through system considering vignetting from system apertures. Reports x or y coordinates." Eye_best.zmx Eye_best.agf Rob Webb: March 31, 1999 "Convenient model eye that evolved from some parameters Oleg Pomerantzef was using. Glass file included." 1064ral81.zmx Richard Rallison: March 31, 1999 One of many sample files involving the recording of diffractive optics. Shafer_Telescope.ZMX Francis Reininger: March 30, 1999 "Here is a Shafer telescope design very similar to what is flying to Saturn on Cassini, and will be flying on the Rosetta comet mission." yag.agf Donald Kwapien: March 30, 1999 "YAG material." 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