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Learning Paths
- Getting Started with OpticStudio
- Imaging System Fundamentals
- Illumination Systems Fundamentals
- Modeling Laser Beam Propagation in OpticStudio
- ZPL Programming
- Getting Started with ZOS-API
Lasers
- How to convert from Lumerical simulations to OpticStudio and back
- STOP Analysis of high-power laser systems - part 5
- Introduction to STAR Stress Birefringence
- STOP Analysis of high-power laser systems - part 3
- STOP Analysis of high-power laser systems - part 4
- STOP Analysis of high-power laser systems - part 2
HUD & AR
- Birdbath architecture for augmented reality (AR) system - part 1-System setup, optimization, and human vision simulation
- Automated Export of Zemax Dynamic LSWM DOE to JSON Data for Usage with Static-LSWM and/or Ansys Speos
- Head-up Display projection system: from Speos to OpticStudio - part2
- Head-up Display projection system: from Speos to OpticStudio - part1
- Simulation of Volume Holographic Grating Using Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis Method
- Birdbath architecture for augmented reality (AR) system - part 2 – Accurate polarizing element simulation
Illumination Systems
- Infrared thermometer and thermal camera simulation using OpticStudio
- How to model the human skin and optical heart rate sensors in OpticStudio
- How to use Luminit's LSD model in OpticStudio - webinar
- Designing a flood light with OpticStudio's Part Designer
- Fly’s eye arrays for uniform illumination in digital projector optics
- Modeling Photoluminescence in OpticStudio: A Photoluminescent Solar Concentrator
Imaging Systems
- From Concept to CubeSat Part 1: Using Ansys Zemax Software to Develop a CubeSat System
- Designing Cell phone Camera Lenses Part 2: Optomechanical Packaging
- STAR Symmetry Tool
- Using the Export to Speos Lens System tool
- Designing Cell phone Camera Lenses Part 1: Optics
- From Concept to CubeSat Part 3: Using the Ansys Zemax Software Suite to Develop a CubeSat System
Lens Design
- Realistic modeling of relief-type diffractive intraocular lenses using User-Defined Surface DLLs
- How to design DOE lens or metalens in OpticStudio
- Mechanics of an Ansys Workflow: OpticStudio - Speos - Creo Parametric
- Designing Cell phone Camera Lenses Part 4: Impact Performance Analysis with LS-DYNA
- Paraxial vs. Real pupils in optical system
- Attaching Interferograms to Optical Surfaces in OpticStudio
