ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base

Akash Arora

Akash is an Optical Engineer at ZEMAX Development Corporation and is also one of the instructors for our short courses on ZEMAX. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences, with a Bachelor's degree in Optical Sciences and Engineering. Prior to joining ZEMAX Development Corporation he worked at Applied Image Group (Tucson, AZ) and Honeywell (Phoenix, AZ).

 Articles by this Author

How to Model an LCD Backlight

In this article, a wedged LCD backlight is modeled, analyzed, and optimized for illumination output criteria.

ZEMAX has two features that improve scattering efficiency: Scatter To and Importance Sampling. In this article we discuss the details of each and perform a stray light analysis using importance sampling.

ZEMAX has several features that improve non-sequential optimization effiiciency. In this article, we re-optimize a free form mirror using pixel interpolation and added capabilities of the NSDD merit function operand.