This article describes how to use the ZEMAX demo to explore the capabilities of ZEMAX.

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.

 

This article introduces prospective and new ZEMAX users to the Non-Sequential ray tracing capabilities of ZEMAX including:

• Faceted reflectors
• Lamp distributions
• Prisms
• Ray splitting
• Scattering
• Diffractive optics
• Coherence modeling
• Complex geometry creation
• Absorption analysis

This article introduces prospective and new ZEMAX users to the Physical Optics Propagation capabilities of ZEMAX including:

• Anamorphic beams
• Fiber coupling
• Gibbs phenomenon
• Spatial filters
• Complex optics
• Beam File Viewer