ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base

Mikhail Levtonov

Mikhail is an optical engineer at Samsung research center in Moscow, Russia. He started working in optics field in 2002 at scientific production group “Mechatron” Russia while studying in Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman. In 2002 he acquired Bachelors and in 2004 Masters degree in specialty “Optoelectronic devices and systems” at the same university. Fields of interests cover metal vapor lasers and related as well as projection optics for RPTV.

 Articles by this Author

This article shows how to create ZEMAX user-defined surfaces using the Waterloo Maple mathematics package.

This article is also available in Japanese.

This article demonstrates:
  • How to model several passes through an unstable optical resonator
  • How to apply soft-edged apertures to a laser beam
  • How to use beam resampling
  • How to model adjustment errors

A zip file containing sample files can be downloaded from the last page of this article.