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Hi,I tried to evaluate astigmatism of curved tilted mirror in sequential mode. Astigmatism is obvious, but Seidel coefficients are zero. Also in Merit Function Editor parameter “ASTI” returns zero. Maybe the reason is that Seidel coefficients ignore the coordinate breaks for tilting.Did not find any topic describing this fact.Does anyone have a solution for getting Astigmatism of focusing system with tilted objects?

Hello I’m trying to implement importance sampling in a model in order to increase the amount of scattered light toward a certain region. I’ve read the documentation and the tutorial online as well as looked at the sample file provided https://support.zemax.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005488461-How-to-use-importance-sampling-to-model-scattering-efficiently I’ve also looked at the sample file in: Samples\Non-sequential\Scattering\Importance Sampling Demonstration.ZMX In both cases above, the amount of scattered rays in a region of interest increases as is desired. However I have encountered the opposite where the amount of rays decrease. I’ve attached a toy system in which this is observed. Could someone please help me clarify what is going on? In this model I have two systems in one separated by a barrier. Each system as a source that scatters on a rectangle object modeled as a Lambertian scatterer. In the upper system I use Importance Sampling with a target sphere at the detector matchin

When using polarization with “random polarisation”, how are the polarization created and assigned to the simulted rays ? Is there a 2pi random distribution that is sampled for each ray’s polarization state ?

Dear All, I am getting not enough memory for 3d plate list error even after my System has enough Ram available. I have attached the screenshots. I was trying to do the stray analysis but unable to do due to this error. Please help me. Thanks,

I want to fix the zoom, pan, and orientation of the geometry in my NSC shaded model, so when I update the position of one of the objects, it doesn’t change back to the default layout. Is there a way to do this?

I am running a POP analysis of a system that has a zernike standard phase surface. I am trying to add defocus using this surface and observe it in the POP phase output. I am able to see small magnitudes of defocus but once I try to add 10 waves or more the POP output does not appear to reflect the added defocus. Is this a sampling issue or something else? 0 waves of defocus 1 wave of defocus 5 waves of defocus 10 waves of defocus

The zemax part designer has a ‘Expose Point’ that allows the sketch point to be directly modified and optimized from the non-sequential component editor. I’d like to do the same with the angle in a ‘ROATE’ command in the script. Is that possible? Or is the another approach that I should use? Thanks in advance for any help, John

Hi, I want to design a schmidt prism in seq mode. How should I approach?

We use volumetric diffusing plastic shell or plate for color mixing the LED array. The info from the vendor is just material and % of added particles like SiO2. Substrate is typical PMMA or similar plastic. Give just info like this what’s the best or simple way to simulate this in Zemax NSC? I’m thinking of Mie or H-Greenstein model but not sure how to set up parameters there with just info like this.

I created a TIR lens by creating two objects (one big aspheric lens and a smaller cylinder volume) and forming Boolean subtraction A-B to make void hole through the lens. This is typical shape of TIR lens for LED. Problem here is that Zemax makes error when ray source placed too close the lens in the region of aspheric lens volume although it’s where it is cut off by the cylinder volume. Normally we disable base elements of Boolean object. It works only if the ray source is placed outside the base lens volume. Is there any way to get around this issue in Zemax?

Hi all, I have a question for detector in non-sequential mode. We often use ‘nit’ to evalute the display system, but I did not find how to change the unit to ‘nit’ for detector in non-sequential mode like LightTools did, so is there anyway that it can be directly displayed in Zemax or we have to export the data from Zemax and do some conversion? Thank you, Kaden

Hi, I have been tring to reproduce the phase produce by the Zernike standard phase, and I believe there is an issue with the terms 7 and 8, corresponding with vertical and horizontal coma. Theoretically they should be Z7=sqrt(8)*(3*ro.^3-2*ro).*sin(phi); Z8=sqrt(8).*(3*(ro.^3)-2*ro).*cos(phi); However, after a lot of headache I realized that they behave like: Z7=sqrt(8)*(3*ro.^3).*sin(phi); Z8=sqrt(8).*(3*(ro.^3)).*cos(phi); Ithought maybe it a different stardard, but in the original paper referred R. Noll, "Zernike polynomials and atmospheric turbulence", J. Opt. Soc. Am., Vol. 66, No. 3, p207 (1976) The definition is sqrt(8)*(3*ro.^3-2*ro).*sin(phi). It is pretty obvious noticing that radially is just a cubic term without the linear term when you represent the wavefront map. It does like the 7th (or 8th) order zernike represented in many places. This is very surprising. Anybody else noticed this issue? I am using Ansys Zemax OpticStudio 2023 R2.02. Thanks, Miguel ZEMAX 7TH ORDER ZERN

Is it possible to to model a rotationally-symmetric Fresnel lens that’s bent into a cylindrical shape? If I understand correctly, Extended Fresnel doesn’t allow for a cylindrical substrate Cylinder Fresnel doesn’t allow for rotationally-symmetric Fresnel features Fresnel 1 & 2 require a flat substrate Thanks!

I was eager to try out this new feature in 2024 R2.02, but I don’t think it’s working properly. I tried exporting a simple file, one OAP mirror with 9 fields defined. When opening the file in SpaceClaim, I did not see any ray footprints on the mirror. I tried all 4 file type options, and none seem to do what I would expect. Can somebody explain the intended workflow and outcome here? Thanks, Sean

Hello, I want to ask how exactly we can calculate the state of polarization in general 3d form or how zemax do it given the optical axis orientation n and the propagation direction of light k How the ordinary and extraordinary E are calculated in this case I think From k and initial polarization we calculate Ein and then Ee​=(Ein​⋅n)n Eo​=Ein​−(Ein​⋅n)n Eo experience no and Ee experience effective refractive index Where I can find some detail calculation steps ? Thanks

I am having trouble understanding the differences between: the sliders in Optimize/Manual Adjustment/Slider the sliders in Optimize/Manual ADjustment/Visual Optimizer From what I understand, they both allow to create several sliders on various parameters and visualize their impact on the system.

Hi zemaxers, I am trying to do a prism surface accuracy simulation in non-sequential mode as illustration below. I used a compound lens to create the prism, but found that it just combine two surfaces as a rectangle object. it seems the compound lens ignore the tilt parameter in the surface. my question how to set the surface tilt in the compound lens? except the compound lens method, is there any other way to do a surface accuracy effects in non-sequential mode? Thanks Yang

Hello, I am new here. I believe that the exit pupil is a plane where PARY (0,1) (0,0) is exactly zero (or a very small numerical error). However, in the simple example attached, I read EXPP = -25.26 µm. This difference from zero is bigger than a numerical error. Could you explain why the exit pupil is not exactly where is should be?Thank you,Olivier

I’m having some trouble running a tolerancing script in OpticStudio, where I continually get the “nominal criterion cannot be computed” error when I attempt to run the script. I’ve tracked it down to a CPAR compensator I’ve defined on a Zernike Fringe Phase surface. I’m attempting to use the phase surface Z9 term to null the system spherical for each Monte Carlo file in the tolerance analysis. I’ve confirmed the compensator is defined correctly (CPAR Surf# Param23), and I’m able to set the same parameter to a variable and optimize in the nominal design file, so I can’t understand why the tolerance script cannot implement this as a compensator. If I comment out the CPAR line, the nominal criteria evaluates and the script runs without issue. Can anyone explain why I’m unable to use this compensator?

One year ago, ​@Xianglei wrote a topic (thanks a lot!) about: Since its been quite painful to generate such plots with ZPL (thanks to ​@Erin.Elliott, we might get a fix in 2025 🤞): I’ve been using the ZOS-API option more and more to create animations. It is more stable, but currently lacks a couple of options. Since we’re approaching the Christmas period 🎅, this is my wish list to improve the ZOS-API Layout Exports feature (in order of importance): As far as I understand, we cannot specify the file type of the export. I’ve tried to use multiple extensions in OutputFileName (.JPG, .PNG, ...etc.) but the file size remains the same. Based on the file size, which is rather small (for a given image size), I’m assuming the export is made in .JPG regardless of the extension specified. Can the file type be added to the ZOS-API? Could we get a vector graphics file type? Although there’s a property RaysLineThickness, for me, it doesn’t seem to have an effect. If someone is anyway going to look

I have a simple system of a laser, pinhole slit, and diffraction grating and having trouble mapping the expected diffraction pattern. I have performed this experiment in real life, and can see the spots align 16 mm apart vertically after exiting the diffraction grating. I have moved my system to non sequential mode and ray traced, but the detector viewer continues to show one giant spot. Can someone please help me better understand what could be the issue here? I am using scattering surfaces.

I tried to do Boolean subtraction with Freeform Z object and cylinder volume in order to drill a cylindrical hole through the Freeform Z lens. But Zemax won’t make that boolean subtraction as I wanted. Is this bug or did I miss something here?

Hi all, Is there a fast way to make binary grating from radial grating? Some thing like that: Into: EDIT: Well I succeed to make a digital function. How I write it in dll. file? Thanks in advance, Nadav

I create a Source Diode file with eliptical ratio of 3 and 0 astigmatism, evergthing including the source sizes are as expected, no problems here, see the raytracing at the left side below. But after I type in a tiny astigmatism of 0.001 (keep everything else untouched), the source size shrinks a lot. What is happening?