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Best way to create and optimize TIR lens in NSC mode

  • October 23, 2024
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jsung

Hi, I’m trying to begin designing TIR lens with outer TIR surface and inner lens surface in small cylindrical hole. I guess most optical engineers understand what I mean by that. What is best approach to this in NSC. I’m thinking of three options.

  1. Use boolean combination of lenses and cylinder. I think this is illustrated in a KB article.
  2. Using freeform Z object with surface profiles parameters.
  3. Using part designer.

I guess there are pros/cons of each method above. I’m more interested in 2 and 3 which I didn’t see illustrated in any KB article or training materials for OpticStudio yet. What are your thoughts and recommendations?

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Mike.Jones
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  • October 23, 2024

Try the BOOLEAN NATIVE option first.  BOOLEAN CAD could work but raytracing speed is slower.    


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  • October 24, 2024

User defined object/ surface is another option for fast optimization purpose though the modelling might be

a little complicate. see the article here on ARtrix and Zemax:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artrix-tir-toolbox-haifeng-ding-8kkkc/?trackingId=md6AK5RuSQayBhTrKb21EA%3D%3D


jsung
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  • October 24, 2024
Mike.Jones wrote:

Try the BOOLEAN NATIVE option first.  BOOLEAN CAD could work but raytracing speed is slower.    

That’s what I tried first before. It works to some extent but it’s quite limited or cumbersome when trying to create more complex inner lens surface.


jsung
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  • October 24, 2024
yu.deyang wrote:

User defined object/ surface is another option for fast optimization purpose though the modelling might be

a little complicate. see the article here on ARtrix and Zemax:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artrix-tir-toolbox-haifeng-ding-8kkkc/?trackingId=md6AK5RuSQayBhTrKb21EA%3D%3D

Thanks for this useful article. Very interesting and impressive indeed. It seems like a special toolbox the author developed to work with Zemax. but question is how available this is to us.


jsung
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  • October 31, 2024

Does anyone know if the KB article on the TIR lens design/optimization still exists? I recall reading that in the past but I couldn’t find that any more in the KB site and no example file in the Zemax samples/courses folder if I’m not mistaken.


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