System Optimization
Articles in this section provide guidance on how to use Ansys Zemax OpticStudio's built-in optimization tools. You may use optimization tools to improve optical system performance after setting up your initial design. In this section, you will find information on using the optimization wizards, Merit Function operands, and optimization algorithms.
- Aspheric Surfaces - Part 1: Introduction to Aspherical Surfaces in Optical Design
- Aspheric Surfaces - Part 2: Compact Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
- Contrast Optimization: a faster and better method for optimizing system MTF - webinar
- How to constrain the thickness of aspheric components
- How to design a singlet lens, Part 3: Optimization
- How to measure and optimize color data
- How to modify field data in the Merit Function Editor using the FDMO operand
- How to obtain the value for any optimization operand in a ZPL macro using OPEV and OPEW
- How to optimize at intermediate surfaces
- How to optimize non-sequential optical systems
- How to prevent the Merit Function from violating an operand?
- How to use glass substitution to optimize the glasses in your optical design
- How to use the find best asphere tool
- How to use the NSDD operand with the Universal Plot
- How to use the Optically Fabricated Hologram to correct for aberrations
- How to use the Quick Adjust tool and Slider
- How to use the Stock Lens Matching tool
- Optimization using a ZPL Macro: the ZPLM operand
- Optimizing for MTF performance using Contrast Optimization
- Using the OpticStudio Non-Sequential Optimization Wizards
- Using the TrueFreeForm surface for grid based freeform optimization
- ZPL macro for scaling the weight of a range of optimization operands