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 ZERNIKE

MATLAB USING THE STANDARD FORMULA:

sqrt(8)*(3*ro.^3-2*ro).*sin(phi).

MATLAB USING THE “WRONG” FORMULA (Result simialr to zemax):

sqrt(8)*(3*ro.^3-).*sin(phi).

Representation of vertical coma in other sources (result similar to matlab with the standard formula):

http://optics.udjat.nl/monochromatic_eye_aberrations.htm