Optical design with ZEMAX
MICRO-517
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- Announcements (Forum)
- Reference Book: A Course in Lens Design (URL)
- Reference Book: Lens Design Basics (URL)
- Reference Book: CRC Handbook of Optical Design 3rd Edition (URL)
- Reference Book: Introduction to Lens Design with Practical ZEMAX examples (URL)
- Additional Resources (Folder)
- Video: Designing of the James Webb Space Telescope (URL)
Lecture 1: Overview and Introduction
Course overview, review of refraction, optical surfaces, optical design and manufacturing, and brief introduction to ZEMAX OpticStudio.
Lecture 2: Modeling of optical system properties
History and evolution of lens forms, paraxial theory of spherical surfaces and lenses, ZEMAX OpticStudio modeling of a single lens.
Lecture 3: Modeling of optical system properties
Process of optical design, paraxial model of typical optical instruments, paraxial lens design layout and ray tracing.
- Lecture 3 Presentation (File)
- Example paraxial telescope (File)
- Example paraxial microscope (File)
- Example paraxial doubly telecentric lens (File)
- Example paraxial zoom lens (File)
- How to Design a Paraxial Zoom Lens (File)
Lecture 4: Aberrations
Definition and evaluation of optical aberrations of a given optical component.
Lecture 5: Layout, Thin Lens Predesign, Surface Model
Procedures to build an aberration-corrected surface model as a good starting point for optimization
Lecture 6: Optimization
Principle of nonlinear optimization and optical systems optimization in ZEMAX
Lecture 7: Design Example
- Lecture 7 Presentation (File)
- ZEMAX Example Cooke Triplet (File)
- Course Example Cooke Triplet Step 1 (File)
- Course Example Cooke Triplet Step 2 (File)
- Course Example Cooke Triplet Step 3 (File)
- Course Example Cooke Triplet Step 4 (File)
- Course Example Cooke Triplet 40-degree FOV (File)