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Hi everyone!Are you looking for a consultant to aid in your design work? Or are you a consultant who wants to get your name out there?This thread will serve as a list of Zemax Consultants. It is a Google-indexed replacement for the Zemax Consultants webpage, which was removed. Thanks to @Donna.Waters for getting this started :).If you're a consultant, please reply with your company information. Include your website and a little blurb about the kind of consulting work you do. Additionally, consider updating your Profile with a signature and some information about your business so other users can see your credentials as you reply to posts.If you are looking for a consultant, please reach out to the consultants via their website or via a private message. Do not reply to this thread requesting services. Please note: the consultants on this list are self-reporting, and are not endorsed by Ansys Zemax. We reserve the right to remove consultants from this list if they fail to meet the standar
Welcome to the Zemax Community! This is a gathering place for all things optics. Within this community, you will be able to find out more about your Zemax products. You will also be able to chat with other industry professionals about the latest trends. Use this space to ask questions, help others, and learn! Now that you're here, there are a few steps you should take to make the most of your experience! 新人入门？(Chinese Version)はじめてですか？ (Japanese Version) First Steps: 1. Subscribe to User News & AlertsWhen you subscribe, you will be kept up-to-date on news that affects Zemax’s user community, like new release functionalities, opportunities to learn and network, or critical issues. 2. Configure your profileLog into the platform and navigate to your profile settings here. Each of your profile elements (except your last name) will be visible to all community members. We encourage you to be descriptive: tell others about your areas of expertise and professional interests. 3. Introduce
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Hello,I am a new user of the OpticStudio software which arouses my curiosity!The wave propagation can be solved with several models and the software offers several possibilities. The model based on the astigmatic Gaussian beams (beamlets) is very well interesting.But, I found few years ago the relevant paper:Gosse L., James F., Convergence results for an inhomogeneous system arising in various high frequency approximations, Numer. Math. 90: 721–753 (2002).It is enough hard because the mathematics formulations are theoretic. However, the issue solving gives several possibilities to find the phase and the amplitude of the light wave together.Numerical values for the phase and the amplitude of the smooth wedge.Therefore, do we have this possibility with the OpticStudio? Compute the phase in order to see transparency images for instance?Thank you in advance for your answer.Benoît.
Share your tips & tricks for efficiently using OpticStudio with the community! There are lots of little ways that we adapt our use of OpticStudio to streamline our work. These are usually learned over time, from colleagues, or from technical support, but they aren't typically found in other product education resources. You might have a favorite keyboard shortcut, saved settings for a particular analysis, a macro that automates 3 steps in your process tied to a hotkey, or a million other ideas. Help your fellow OpticStudio users and learn some new tricks yourself.
The details of the webinar are below! This thread will be used to collect questions before the webinar, and to answer any questions we received during the webinar. Feel free to post your questions! Be sure to subscribe to this thread if you want to see additional discussion regarding this topic. The thread will be open to comments for a limited time. Webinar details:Register here: [The event had concluded.]Date: Thursday, February 24thTime: 6:00am PST & 11:00am PSTPresenters:@Jordan.Teich, Application Engineer II @Flurin Herren, Application Engineer II @Matthias.Schlich, R&D Engineer IIAbstract: CubeSats are a class of nanosatellite that are designed to operate within standardized dimensions of 1U cubes (10 cm x 10cm x 10cm). They can vary in size from 1U to 6U payloads. In the aerospace market, CubeSats have emerged as a lower cost solution for space-based optical systems. To design a CubeSat system, a workflow needs to be defined for developing the optical design, opto-mecha
I suspect the Stock Lens Matching tool does not test the stock lenses twice (both direct and flipped). Can you confirm this? I'm testing on a finite-conjugates system with two cemented doublets and it looks like the best result is not following the symmetry principle. Indeed, when I flip the first doublet I can reach far better results.
Hello, I need for my simulation source diode with circular instead of rectangular aperture (without the possibility to model arrays). Thus I would like to know if the DLL code of source diode is available, so that I can manipulate it for my purposes. Thanks and best regards Dirk
Bonjour à tous,J’espère que le course ce passe bien pour vous.Utilisons ce forum pour communiquer et s’entraider entre les séances. Merci de vous '’subscribe'’ pour recevoir les notifications.Je vous envoie les slides par mail.A bientot!prenom projet commentaire Fouad Panneau solaire transparent Bien parti, regarde l’outil '’array'’ quand tu es pret pour les lentilles. Penses bien à ajouter les difficultés petit à petit. Fais d’abords un fichier avec juste une lentille, un detecteur…. ensuite tu feras le systeme avec les objects répliqués https://support.zemax.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005489001-How-to-model-a-Fresnel-lens-in-OpticStudio Jonathan&Mélanie Phare maritime https://support.zemax.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005486821-How-to-model-a-complex-Fresnel-lens C’est bien, faites le collimateur pour les LED, les Fresnels. Lucas Ligne laser pour velo Peu de données disponibles en ligne, il faut bien faire le dimensionnement grossier pour voir qu’elle typ
Hello, I'm using the following knowledge base article to convert a lens design file (sequential) into it's non-sequential alternative: https://customers.zemax.com/os/resources/learn/knowledgebase/how-to-convert-sequential-surfaces-to-non-sequenti Does it also work on black box models? Thank you in advance!  
This thread is dedicated to the upcoming webinar: Using Skew Rays to Model Laser Beams. Any questions received during the webinar will be responded to as a reply on this thread. Feel free to post your own questions! The speaker will be notified and will respond as long as the thread is still open.Be sure to subscribe to this thread if you want to see additional discussion regarding this webinar topic. The thread will be open to new replies until Friday, April 22nd. Webinar detailsRegister here: [The webinar has concluded.]Date: Thursday, April 14th. Time: 6:00 - 6:35 AM PDT, and 11:00 - 11:35 AM PDTPresenter: Paul Colbourne, Senior Optical Designer at LumentumAbstract:In this webinar, Lumentum’s Paul Colbourne will describe how to use skew rays to model Gaussian beam propagation in OpticStudio. Skew rays are an efficient and accurate representation of Gaussian beams and can be used to quickly optimize for best focus or to minimize aberrations. Paul will demonstrate how to set up User-
Hi everyone, Our lab is using a Zeiss 20X water immersion lens (Item no.: 421452-9800-000) in a custom light-sheet microscope, and I was trying to perform some simulations of the point spread function (PSF).I searched for the patent of this lens, and potentially found something relevant at the German patent office (Application No. 10 2005 051 025.6). In this patent, Table 3 describes a 20X water-immersion objective lens with a 1.0 NA and 2.149 mm working distance. I’m copying this table here for your reference:Surface number Radius Thickness Nd Vd 0 Water immersion 1 -9.039 4.80 1.519 64.0 2 -19.248 4.61 1.597 35.0 3 -9.576 0.40 4 -101.598 5.00 1.440 94.6 5 -14.227 0.10 6 64.011 5.50 1.440 94.6 7 -21.754 0.50 8 58.715 7.00 1.530 76.6 9 -15.181 1.50 1.641 42.2 10 14.227 6.80 1.440 94.6 11 -53.084 0.10 12 14.539 7.10 1.440 94.6 13 -68.788 1.77
Hey Zemax team,Sadly my license for OS does not include the new ‘draw entrance and exit pupils’ feature, but I saw a posting on LinkedIn that leads me to think it’s not correct. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ir-ekim-yildirim-bb9481161_did-you-know-that-zemax-2024-r1-can-draw-activity-7179440511521292288-86_4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopI’m assuming that the red pupils are the off-axis pupil (and so sees the red rays). The pupils appear to me to be:tilting the wrong way not centered on the chief ray of the field pointI can’t play with the feature to satisfy myself. Could someone post this layout (its the double Gauss sample file) with ‘Draw Marginal and Chief Rays’ selected please?Mark
This thread is dedicated to the upcoming webinar: Designing Cell phone Camera Lenses with an Interoperability Workflow – Part 1. Any questions received during the webinar will be responded to as a reply on this thread. Feel free to post your own questions! The speaker will be notified and will respond as long as the thread is still open.Be sure to subscribe to this thread if you want to see additional discussion regarding this webinar topic. The thread will be open to new replies for a limited time following the event. [The webinar has concluded] Webinar detailsDate: Tuesday, September 13thTime: 6:00 - 6:45 AM PDT | 11:00 - 11:45 AM PDTPresenter: Sandrine Auriol, Lead Application Engineer & Flurin Herrin, Application Engineer IIAbstract:The cell phone market has experienced rapid growth over the past two decades. Cell phones improving significantly on a yearly basis, part of that evolution are also the camera lenses of the cell phones. With image quality reaching higher levels than
OpticStudio supports Q-type aspheres. Type 0 indicates Qbfs polynomials, and Type 1 indicates Qcon polynomials. The functional forms of the Q-type polynomials are fairly complex due to the requirement that the polynomials be orthonormal for a circular aperture. Occasionally, it is convenient to know the functional form of the polynomials for testing and comparison purposes. Below, we list the first 10 Qbfs polynomials, and also share how to calculate them in the Mathematica file GenerateQbfsPolynomials.nb. The .nb files for Mathematica can be used by downloading the free Wolfram Player: https://www.wolfram.com/player/.Important equations for the Q-bfs polynomialsThe equations used below come from Shape specification for axially symmetric optical surfaces, G.W. Forbes, Optics Express 5218, Vol. 15, No. 8, 16 Apr 2007. Forbes watned to find a function whose slopes are orthogonal. So the slope equations must obey:where u is the radial coordinate in the aperture of an optical surface
Hi Trying to set up a NS system with goal to achieve a uniform flat top rectangular light distribution at a distance. So far only achieve in one direction. Need someone to review my set up and merit function. I could not find a kb article on this subject except the article by Akash Arora “How to optimize NS optical system” which was helpful as a 1st step. Please see attached detailed description and question in ppt and .zar file Thanks.
I’m trying to create an orange from boolean orange slices in Zemax. The question is how to wrangle them into position in the simplest way possible. I’ve attached a screenshot which shows the LDE and the incorrect placement of the 2nd wedge. Thanks!
Link: Max CoresAt the risk of repeating the question above, now I’m being more specific:How do I diagnose the reason that fewer than 100% of the cores are being used?The model is:Sequential lens Merit function is the default minimum spot size with constraints on thickness / radii There are (x3) configurations for thermalI am seeking Global Optimization solutions.I have a “new” computer:(x32) Cores 128 GB RAMWhen I started the optimization last night, the fan started spinning so I knew (?) it was working hard. This morning, all is quiet. (x7) of (x32) Cores are working on the problem and I have very little physical RAM in use as reported by the Windows Resource Monitor.Looking like it cannot find a better designReferencing the question above:The number of assigned variables during the optimization (x20 variables and fewer than x20 cores used) OpticStudio will only use as many cores as the number of variables assigned The amount of RAM in your system (Way more memory available than
Dear all, I noticed that zemax gives the beam size and divergence at 1/e^2 FW (full width) (13.5% FW) but, I would like to have it at 10%. Does anyone know whether there is a way in zemax to get the beam size and divergence at other FW. My beam is not Gaussian so, I cannot simply convert the 13.5%, the zemax output, to 10% using the intensity distribution. Thanks in advance,Maryam
Hi,Thanks for the (many) postings about the new 31.3 release. However, OS is still reporting that 21.22 is still the current version. When will the new release be available?On the new .ZOS file format, does it have any advantages over the old format? Like faster load times? Does it also replace the ZAR format?Mark
Hello, I have a very simple nonsequential model: Source Point: power=10 W, coherence length=0, linear polarized: Jx=Jy=1, collimated light: cone angle=0 Detector rectangle: placed behind source, normal incidence, number of pixels=1, polarization=2 for measuring power of y-polarized light Then I have a merit function: NSDD for clearing the detector NSTR for making the rey trace NSDC for measuring nonsquential coherent data I was expecting to get Ey (y-component of the E-field vector), if I take Pix=0, Data=2 as parameters for NSDC. But I got 1,581 as result. From my understanding the result should be Sqrt(10)*cos(45°)=2,236. What's wrong here? If I take Pix=0, Data=3 as parameters for NSDC I get 2,5 as result. Data=3 should calculate the power. Because power is proportional to amplitude of E-Field vector and 1,581^2=2,5 this is consistent. But according to Malus Law I was expecting to get 10W * (cos(45°))^2 = 5W. I would be very happy if someone can help me clarifying this
What does this announcement on the front page of www.zemax.com mean for this community forum and knowledgebase?I hope the forum will stay open, but in the case it gets shut down, will there be an equivalent forum on the Ansys website? Will legacy Zemax users have access without a license for an Ansys product?
