Standard Standalone Applications for Zemax OpticStudio
Standalone Applications: Achieving More Complex and User-Defined Design and Analysis in a Shorter Time
Standard Standalone Applications for Zemax OpticStudio
What is a Zemax OpticStudio software extension?
A Zemax OpticStudio software extension is a custom plugin or module that allows users to extend the functionality of the software beyond what is provided in the standard application. It enables users to add their own custom optical elements, surfaces, coatings, sources, and analyses using their own algorithms or mathematical models. By creating software extensions, users can tailor Zemax OpticStudio to suit specific requirements, simulate specialized optical components, or integrate custom algorithms and designs into the software.
The Zemax OpticStudio software extension framework provides an interface for users to develop their extensions using programming languages like C#, C++, Mathematica, MATLAB and Python. With the extensions, users can define the properties, behavior, and interactions of their custom optical components, which can then be seamlessly integrated into the OpticStudio environment. Extensions can be loaded within Zemax OpticStudio as a plugin, and the custom elements and features become accessible from the user interface alongside the standard elements provided by the software.
What is a Zemax OpticStudio standalone application?
Standalone applications are one of the available modes of software extensions. They can be written in C#, C++, Mathematica, MATLAB and Python. Standalone applications does not need an active Zemax instance for the operations.
Standard standalone applications:
We have the following list of standalone applications available for annual leasing.
1) OS Suite:OS Suite is an extension for OpticStudio to provide the optical designer an easy-to-use and faster program experience.
The extension is composed of several tabs, each of which is for the editors in OpticStudio. These are Lens Data Editor, Multi-Configuration Editor, Merit Function Editor, Tolerance Data Editor, Non-Sequential Editor, Wavelength Data Editor and Field Data Editor. OS Suite is continuously improved with new functions.
2) Dynamic Merit Function:The optimization process by default has static operand weights. This program enables different optimization blocks and dynamically changes the weight of operands in the Merit Function Editor to minimize the error function.
3) Polarization Analysis:This extension performs retardance analysis of the optical system. The program scans all configurations, wavelengths and field points across all the pupil positions. It can output the retardance results for a specific surface or for all surfaces.
Output file is a TXT with all the values. In additon to that, a retardance map of a chosen configuration, wavelength and field is generated.
4) Image Quality Analysis:This program performs image analysis of a single element or multiple elements of the optical system for optical aberrations or user-defined image criteria.
5) Tolerance Analysis:Tolerance analysis may need complex shifts and tilts of a single or multiple elements in the optical system. This program aims to make such complex movements in the system.
6) Sensitivity Analysis:This program performs element shifts and tilts in all directions and calculates the optical aberrations for single or multiple shifts and tilts.
7) Straylight Analysis:This program performs stray light analysis resulting from a single or multiple elements in the optical system. Output is a TXT file corresponding to the raw data.
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