Lens Catalogs

Stock lens catalogs from vendors such as:

are included in Zemax. The lens catalogs can be automatically searched and filtered. Here, for example, the 376 lenses in the current (time of writing, January 2007) Linos Photonics catalog are filtered to show only doublet lenses of between 90 and 150 mm focal length, and between 45 and 55 mm diameter.

You can examine the prescription data of the lens and view its layout plot without modifying the data currently in the editors. The you can choose to load the lens (create a new lens file that contains only the catalog lens) or to insert the lens at a specified location in the existing optical design.