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Resources about Zemax method for Fraunhofer and Geometrical MTF

  • 26 April 2022
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Hi

Can anyone give me some resources on how Zemax calculates Fraunhofer and Geometrical MTF ? I did not find any useful information on the help section.

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Best answer by Sean.Lin 4 May 2022, 08:51

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Hi AminR,

You can check out our knowledge base article Methods for analyzing MTF in OpticStudio.There is a detailed introduction to the different MTFs

FFTMTF: which is based upon Fraunhofer diffraction theory. The method involves a Fast Fourier Transform of a grid of rays traced to the pupil (hence the name FFT MTF). The resulting MTF is the modulation as a function of spatial frequency for a sine wave object; although optionally the real, imaginary, phase, and square wave response is available.

Geometrical MTF:  It is based on a Fourier transform of the geometric spot data, and uses a Gaussian Quadrature sampling scheme.

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Sean

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