ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base - Articles - Sequential Ray Tracing

Exploring Sequential Mode in ZEMAX

no@spam.com (Andrew Locke) — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 PST

This article introduces prospective and new ZEMAX users to the capabilities of sequential mode in ZEMAX including:

Layouts
Spot Diagrams
Ray and Optical Path Difference (OPD) Fans
MTF calculations
Extended source modeling
Off-axis systems
System aperture, field and wavelength data

This article can be used to explore both the ZEMAX demo and full, licensed versions of ZEMAX.

How to Design Afocal Systems

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 PDT

This article explains:

what an afocal system is
how to optimize such systems
how to get data from afocal systems in angular units
how to handle cylindrical systems
how to handle systems with multiple focal and afocal spaces

The article includes a zip archive containing sample files, which can be downloaded from the link on the last page of this article.

This article is also available in Japanese.

How To Design a Singlet Lens

no@spam.com (Dan Hill) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 PDT

This article explains:

Modifying system settings, including System Aperture, Lens Units, Fields and Wavelengths
Entering lens prescription data
Using solves to enforce design contraints
Analyzing system performance prior to optimization
Determining degrees of freedom and setting variables
Setting up a default merit function
Optimizing and analyzing final design performance