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 reverse an optical system
- How to set the lens mount reference for thermal analysis
- How to simulate atmospheric scattering using a Mie model
- How to tilt and decenter a sequential optical component
- How to use importance sampling to model scattering efficiently
- How to use multiple ABg profiles to define an object's surface scatter property
- How to use Ray Aiming
- How to use tabular BSDF data to define the surface scattering distribution
- How to use the Array Ring Object
- How to use the Boolean CAD, Boolean Native and Compound Lens objects, and the Combine Objects tool
- How to use the Grid Sag surface type
- How to use the Jones Matrix surface
- How to use the Model Glass
- How to use the Modify Reference Object tool
- How to use the Mueller Matrix surface
- How to use the Zernike Sag surface to model an all-reflective system
- How to use vignetting factors
- How to work in global coordinates in a sequential optical system
- Improving non-sequential ray tracing speeds with nested and Boolean objects
- Investigating OpticStudio’s polarization features
- Modeling a lens that is telecentric in image space
- Modeling a white light source using the Phosphor DLL
- Modeling high order laser beams in OpticStudio
- Modeling optics with realistic edge apertures
- Overview of photoluminescence simulation in OpticStudio
- Polarization-sensitive scattering in OpticStudio
- Programming custom light sources and uniform deviates
- Rotation Matrix and Tilt About X/Y/Z in OpticStudio
- Use the Requirements Editor in OpticStudio
- Using Gaussian Quadrature to model a broad wavelength spectrum