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- 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?
- Understanding paraxial ray tracing
- Modeling a lens that is telecentric in image space
- How to design afocal systems
- What is the Pupil Shift and how is it calculated?
- How to reverse an optical system
- How to use vignetting factors
- What does the term apodization mean?
- How to use Ray Aiming
