Features
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| 3D optics (tilts & bends using local or global coordinates on all surfaces) | 
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| Unlimited number of surface, variables & optimization targets | |
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| Test plate libraries | |
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| Test plate analysis and ranking | |
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| Non-sequential groups, regular and tabular arrays | |
Surface Modeling
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| Spheres, aspheres, conics, polynomial aspheres |
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| Cylindrical, toroidal, splines, axicons, Zernikes | |
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| Fresnels, ISO 10110 asphere, cones | |
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| Hologram, gratings, binaries | |
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| Axial, radial GRIN or Wood, Selfoc or Gradium lens | |
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| User defined gradient, sag, eikonal or diffractive surface |
Source Types
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| Astigmatic source, telecentric source, Arc, LED & Lambertian |
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| Independent X and Y Gaussian distributions and Radiant Imaging data | |
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| Extended source shapes: cross, bar, filament, grid, slit, & user defined | |
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| Polarized source | |
Multiconfiguration Systems
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| Zoom lens design, thermal configurations, athermal design |
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| Systems containing beamsplitters and multiple beam paths |
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| Zoom lens optical properties analysis and comparative configuration plots |
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Multiconfiguration Variables
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| Curvatures, thicknesses, refractive indices & apertures, skip surfaces |
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| Aspheric & special data coefficients (tilts, decenters, GRINS & diffractive) |
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| Wavelengths, ray aiming mode, reference surfaces (stop, image, …etc.) |
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| Aperture (NA, EPD, …etc.) and field of view |
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Starting Design Libraries
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| OSLO demos & examples (40 lenses), vendor lens catalogs (192+ lenses) |
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| Arthux Cox, Ellis Betensky, and Warren Smith libraries (705 lenses) |
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| Non-sequential & special examples (37 lenses) |
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Fiber Coupling Efficiency
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| Single-mode coupling with stepped-index or Gaussian-mode fibers | |
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| Efficiency vs. tilt or displacement | |
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| User-defined fiber mode | |
Optimization
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| Autofocus for minimum paraxial focus, RMS spot size or RMS OPD |
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| Damped least squares with automatic error function or user calculated operands | |
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| Damped least squares with pre-defined system and ray operands incl. spot size, wavefront, field sags, aberrations (3rd, 5th & chromatic), D-d, …etc. | |
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| Zernike, MTF, polarization and multi-layer coating property operands | |
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| Powell’s method, simplex method and global optimization engines | |
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| Global Explorer and Adaptive Simulated Annealing | |
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| Conformal optics (Wassermann-Wolf) solve | |
Tolerancing
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| Surface tolerancing on curvature, conic constant, thickness, axial shift refractive index, X & Y tilt and decenter (all with ISO 10110 defaults) |
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| Component tolerances on X & Y decenter, tilt and center of curvature tilt | |
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| Group tolerances on axial shift, decenter, tilt and tilt about arbitrary point | |
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| User defined tolerancing error function with direct or inverse sensitivity and RSS, uniform or Gaussian statistics |
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| Change table tolerancing using transverse spherical / axial & field D-d / meridional & central coma / axial & field sags and RMS OPD / best focus, back focus or focal length / direct or equal RSS contribution / distortion, transverse distortion & lateral shear / magnification |
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| MTF/Wavefront tolerancing using Hopkins-Tiziani method with direct or inverse sensitivity / perturbation coefficients or direct output / statistical performance estimates | |
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| Monte Carlo Tolerancing with a user defined error function | |
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| Tolerance grades (A, B, C, D) & grade table | |
Tools
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| Narcissus or ghost effects, export DXF, IGES and 10110 ISO drawings |
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| SCL – simple command language for automating specialized tasks | |
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| CCL – compiled command language (C language syntax w/ support library) | |
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| DDE Interface | |
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| User defined DLL | |
Analysis
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| Spot diagrams: 7 different mono and polychromatic analyses w/ options |
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| Aberration analyses: 3rd, 5th in any color / OSC calculation / 7th order spherical | |
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| Wavefront analysis with exact Strehl ratio (w/ apodization) / Zernike analysis / pupil map or perspective plot / RMS & peak-valley statistics | |
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| Point or line spread function: meridional or sagittal scan / amplitude, phase & intensity output / FFT & direct integration methods / perspective plots | |
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| Geometrical and diffraction based energy distribution with encircled & ensquared energy, 1/e2 & FWHM cutoff points and knife-edge scans | |
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| MTF(Modulation Transfer Function) – through-frequency or through-focus | |
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| MTF using FFT or convolution calculation / square wave input / vs. field angle | |
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| Gaussian beam interactive analysis: spot size, waist size & distance, wavefront radius, far-field divergence, Rayleigh range, deviation from diffraction limit (M2 factor) & plot beam spot size | |
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| Gaussian beam astigmatic trace: independent YZ and XZ analyses | |
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| Fiber coupling efficiency using overlap integral & Gaussian apodization | |
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| Point or line spread function using choice of Kirchhoff or Rayleigh-Sommerfeld integral / vector diffraction / DOE efficiency | |
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| Polarization and multilayer coating analysis | |