ZEMAX is a comprehensive optical design software. It provides advanced and industrial standard analysis, optimization and tolerance analysis functions, and can quickly and accurately complete optical imaging and lighting design.

For engineers, one of the most important functions of OpticStudio in product simulation is to be able to trace sequential and non sequential rays in the same optical system. For products, it is very important to ensure their manufacturability during simulation modeling, which includes the need for design and analysis in sequential mode and simulation in non sequential mode. Whether the system is simple or complex, OpticStudio can help you solve problems in optical design before producing the prototype. The OpticStudio 18.4 released this time contains a number of new features and enhancements to help you simulate optical systems more accurately.

New full field aberration analysis

Through full field of view analysis of your system, observe how different types of aberrations reduce the beam or imaging quality of your system, greatly improving your design experience in the field of free-form surfaces.

Updated upgrade to NSC group tool

The off axis system with eccentric aperture can realize automatic conversion.

New combined lens object

The complex lens is simulated in non sequential mode for stray light analysis and optical mechanical design.

New Native Boolean Object

Fast, accurate and reliable ray tracing in complex objects.

OpticStudio provides a flexible, intuitive and powerful modeling environment for rapid verification of optical design ideas. Our recent survey results show that the user interface and overall usability of OpticStudio are still critical for users. The new version released this time has the following updates for availability:

New search function

Use this function to help you quickly find the required surface, object or operand in the editor.

New Bookmarks

Use this function to fully improve the organization and arrangement of editor content.

three Different versions: Standard ， Professional ， Premium

ZEMAX comes in three different versions: Standard, Professional, and Premium. Standard is the standard version, which contains most of the tools for the design of the sequence optical system of the imaging system; Professional is a professional edition, including non sequential optical system design, polarized ray tracing, physical optics analysis and all functions in Standard; Premium is the flagship version, which contains all tools and resources and is suitable for more advanced professional users. Include ParkLink ™、 AssemblyLink ™, light source model library, advanced light path analysis, lightning trace, etc.

ZEMAX Application field and scope of

● Lens design of microscope, telescope, eyepiece, etc

● Camera lens, various zoom lenses, mobile phone camera, night vision system design, etc

● Various LED secondary light distribution lenses, chroma analysis and color mixing optimization

● Design optimization of lighting systems such as lamps, LCD backlight and LED

● Optical tube, optical fiber connector, active and passive components, optical fiber coupling

● DVD, VCD laser read-write head, interferometer, holographic optics

● Design of various projectors and optical engines such as LCOS and DLP

● Physical optics BPM calculation, polarized optics

● Laser optical system, laser marking machine and component design, system analysis

● Design optimization of laser beam expander lens, F-theta scanning lens and shaping lens

ZEMAX Of Technical performance

Main functions that can be realized by the software

● Geometric optics design: imaging lens design, imaging quality analysis, temperature environment analysis, processing tolerance analysis, etc

● Physical optics design: design and analysis of laser system and components, analysis of optical coherence diffraction characteristics, fiber coupling, etc

● Lighting system design: lighting system design, optical and mechanical design, dynamic link with 3D model software, light source library, etc

● ZPL language extension: the built-in programming language can realize function extension

● Extended function: can be used together with C language, C++, VB and other programming languages

Everything you need to design optical systems

Five steps to design your optical system in OpticStudio:

1. Set up your system

OpticStudio’s intuitive user interface includes easy-to-learn tools and wizards which enable efficient simulation and design of any optical system.

With more than 200 field points you can set up even the most complex freeform and non-rotationally symmetric systems.

Design high-confidence virtual prototypes with the only optical design software that can model everything from imaging optics to illumination, including the effects of stray light.

2. Analyze your system to evaluate performance

OpticStudio includes a suite of tools to analyze the performance of your system. In addition to the classic analysis functions, OpticStudio also offers Full-field Aberration analysis to improve freeform designs; contrast analysis for MTF optimization; and Image Simulation to produce photorealistic images of object scenes.

3. Optimize your system to meet manufacturing specifications

State-of-the-art optimization tools automatically improve the performance of designs based on userdefined constraints and design goals. This saves time by eliminating design iterations.

Optimize for MTF up to 10x faster with Contrast Optimization – which removes multiple design and test steps inherent in older processes.

4. Tolerance your system to ensure manufacturability

Advanced tools incorporate manufacturing and assembly limits into design constraints to ensure manufacturability and production efficiency.

In addition to sensitivity studies, Monte Carlo tolerance analysis can simulate the as-built performance.

Finished designs can be exported to manufacturingready outputs such as ISO drawings and common CAD file formats.

5. Customize OpticStudio to suit your needs

With the ZOS-API, you can create standalone applications, build your own analyses, and control OpticStudio externally using C#, C++, MATLAB and Python.

Zemax Programming Language (ZPL) enables you to write your own macros to automate repetitive processes.

Custom DLLs allow creation of any surfaces, objects, sources, and scatter functions.

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