Question I am attempting to use the save() command in a CCL routine to save the current lens. I want to save the lens to a particular directory, but I am having trouble specifying that directory using the "directory_name" parameter. What is the problem? Synopsis Saving files to different...
Question How do I insert a catalog lens into my OSLO lens file? Synopsis Accessing the Catalog Lens Database within a lens file Solution "To insert a lens from the Lens Catalog Database into an existing lens: In the Surface Data Spreadsheet, click the right mouse button on the grey box of the...
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...
