Question How do I add aspheric terms to a surface in OSLO? Synopsis Adding terms to an aspheric surface Solution Identify the surface that you want to add an aspheric to and choose the grey box in the "Special" column of that surface. Choose " Polynomial Asphere (A)" from the pop-up list If you...
Question Why doesn't my simple CCL graphics routine work in CCL? Synopsis CCL graphics routines and gshow. Solution The most common cause of this is a failure to place a gshow command at the end of a sequence of lineto ( glt) or moveto ( gmt) commands. These commands are cached in memory to speed...
Question Should I use the OSLO or UltraEdit text editor for CCL? Synopsis CCL Editors Symptoms UltraEdit is a third party program that has serious professional-level file editing features such as multiple-file editing, extensive searching options and color syntax coding to name a few. This makes it...
Question "I am using OSLO-EDU and attempting to follow an example from your documentation (i.e. the OSLO Optics Reference). I can follow everything just fine until I get to optimization. When I follow the directions and attempt to perform an optimization iteration, I get the error message: Error...
Question I am doing a polarization calculation where I an sending either linear or elliptically polarized light into my system. I seem to be getting incorrect answers for some orientations of the polarization axis of the input beam. Is there a known problem related to this? Synopsis Known problem...
Question I am attempting to copy a few of cells from an electronic spreadsheet (such as MS Excel) into OSLO, but OSLO only accepts the entry for the first cell. Is there a trick that I am missing? Synopsis Copying multiple spreadsheet cells into OSLO Solution The cells in OSLO's spreadsheet have...
Question I am trying to run UltraEdit 8.0 on Vista. It prompts me to enter the license info, and I enter it, and then it prompts to exit and restart the program. After the restart, it prompts for the license info again .... what can I do to get it working? Synopsis UltraEdit does not retain license...
Question This record is outdated. It has been superceded by record #445 XMT Plots the fall in transmission as a function of relative object height arising from vignetting. It illustrates how a custom error handler prevents reference ray failures terminating execution of a CCL command. Synopsis XMT...
Question I am interested in exchanging data between OSLO and other programs. How do I accomplish this? Synopsis Information about data exchange formats for OSLO Symptoms There are two main ways to exchange data between OSLO and other programs:
Question I have a zoom system where I want a certain surface parameter to be zoomed in all configurations. However, in some configurations, I want the variables to be tied together (equivalent to each other), and in others I want them to vary independently. How do I do this? Synopsis Tying...
