System Setup
Articles in this section cover the setup parameters and core settings required to define an optical system. Here you will find articles addressing how to define global parameters, initial system configurations, or other questions relating to the start of your design in Ansys Zemax OpticStudio.
- How to define metal materials in OpticStudio
- How to design a singlet lens, Part 1: Setup
- How to design afocal systems
- How to determine which material catalog is being used
- How to enter glass data at specific wavelengths
- How to fit temperature-dependent index data to the OpticStudio thermal model
- How to locate geometry errors part II - design examples
- How to locate geometry errors: part I
- How to make any object into a source object
- How to model a black-box optical system using Zernike coefficients
- How to model a dichroic beam splitter
- How to model a mixed sequential/non-sequential system
- How to model a partially reflective and partially scattering surface
- How to model a phantom lens
- How to model a scanning mirror
- How to model an ellipse using the Conjugate Surface
- How to model an off-axis parabolic mirror
- How to model and design real waveplate in OpticStudio
- How to model colored and Tristimulus Sources
- How to model diffractive optics using the Binary 2 surface
- How to model DMD (MEMS) in OpticStudio
- How to model fluorescence using bulk scattering
- How to model holograms in OpticStudio
- How to model LEDs and other complex sources
- How to model surface scattering via the K-correlation distribution
- How to model thermal gradients in an interferometer cavity
- How to pivot any element about any point in space
- How to place dummy surfaces at the front and rear principal planes
- How to restore coordinate systems using the Coordinate Return
- How to return the index of refraction at a specific wavelength