Mixed Mode
CAD
- How to show exported rays in the CAD platform
- Using the OpticStudio Dynamic CAD link
- How to export a lens to CAD in OpticsViewer
- How to export a lens to CAD
- How to explode a CAD assembly
- How to import CAD objects
Source Modelling
- Speos and Zemax Source file converter
- Light sources used in illumination design
- Modeling a white light source using the Phosphor DLL
- How to create an array of sources
- How to make any object into a source object
- How to model LEDs and other complex sources
Non Sequential Objects
- What is the Zemax Part Designer?
- NSC Sag Map Tool Usage
- How to measure the sag of an NSC object
- Improving non-sequential ray tracing speeds with nested and Boolean objects
- How to use the Array Ring Object
- Creating Polygon Objects in OpticStudio
Illumination System Fundamentals
- An overview of a typical illumination system design cycle
- Useful optical simulation methods in illumination design
- Performance targets of illumination design
- Background theory and concepts of illumination design
- Introduction to illumination systems
- Modeling frustrated total internal reflection in Non-Sequential mode
Tilted/Decentered Systems
- How to model an off-axis parabolic mirror at finite conjugates
- Rotation Matrix and Tilt About X/Y/Z in OpticStudio
- Demystifying the off-axis parabolic mirror
- How to tilt and decenter a sequential optical component
- How to model a scanning mirror
- Why do rays trace behind a fold mirror surface?
Scattering
- Fitting ABg scattering coefficients from raw measured data
- How to create a user defined scattering function
- How to use multiple ABg profiles to define an object's surface scatter property
- Using the Henyey-Greenstein distribution to model bulk scattering
- How to simulate atmospheric scattering using a Mie model
- Polarization-sensitive scattering in OpticStudio
Coatings
Materials
- How to return the index of refraction at a specific wavelength
- What is the "reference temperature" of a material?
- How to add new materials and glasses in OpticStudio
- Can I define a background material other than air?
- How to determine which material catalog is being used
- How to define metal materials in OpticStudio
Sequential Surfaces
- How to model DMD (MEMS) in OpticStudio
- Tools for diffractive optics - webinar
- How to use the Grid Sag surface type
- How to use the ISO Element Drawing
- Adding a phase surface to an off-axis mirror
- Freeform optics - webinar
Imaging System Fundamentals
- Exploring Sequential Mode in OpticStudio
- Using Multi-Configuration Operands to control parameters in a single configuration system
- How to place dummy surfaces at the front and rear principal planes
- Adjusting relative luminosity to simulate the visible spectrum
- Display pupils on a layout plot
- What is a ray?
