ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base - Articles - LEDs

Where Can I Get LED Optical Data in ZEMAX format?

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:00:00 PDT

Question: Where can I obtain optical performance data for the LEDs I want to use in my design?

How to Use Osram LED data with ZEMAX

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:00:00 PDT

LED manufacturer Osram Opto Semiconductors now makes comprehensive ray-tracing data for its range of products available free of charge in ZEMAX format. This article explains how to access and use that data.

How to use Opsira LED Sources

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST

This article describes how to use Luca'Raymaker from Opsira to generate source files that ZEMAX can use for ray-tracing.

How to Improve the Brightness of an LED Using a Free-Form Mirror

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 PST

This article describes how to optimize a free-form mirror to improve the brightness of an LED source. A brightness increase of 13x is achieved.

It is also a useful guide to the optimization of any general non-sequential system, and includes tips, techniques and (how to avoid) pitfalls in the optimization of such systems.

How to Model LEDs and Other Complex Sources

no@spam.com (Mark Nicholson) — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:00:00 PDT

This article explains:

How to model an LED, or other complex source, in the non-sequential mode of ZEMAX
How to use the source_radial to enter simple experimental data
How to use the source_file to enter detailed experimental data
How to build complex geometrical models of sources

The article contains sample files in a zip archive which can be downloaded from the last page of the article.