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Zemax 13 SE Edition

Contains most of the tools needed for sequential optical
system design of imaging systems and basic illumination
design capabilities. Now includes polarization and thin-film analysis tools

Sequential Surfaces
Zemax 13 SE supports sequential ray tracing through surfaces bounding refractive, reflective, diffractive or gradient index media. Here is a table of some of the available surfaces:

Type	*Description*
Standard	Includes planes, spheres, ellipses, parabolas and conics
Even aspheric	Polynomial asphere with even powers
Odd aspheric	Polynomial with even and odd powers
Paraxial lens	A perfect thin lens
Paraxial cylinder	A perfect thin cylinder lens
Toroidal	Cylindrical aspheres and toroids
Toroidal grating	A toroid with a grating superimposed
Toroidal hologram	A toroid with a hologram superimposed
Tilted	For modeling planes and wedges
Cubic spline	A radial spline of arbitrary shape, for freeform optics
Irregular	For modeling fabrication errors
Hologram	Two-point optically-fabricated hologram
Diffraction grating	Straight line grating, standard substrate, also elliptical, variable-line spacing
Radial grating	Rotationally symmetric grating with variable-line spacing
Coordinate break	Tilts and decenters of element groups
Polynomial	Nonsymmetric polynomial asphere
Fresnel	Fresnel zone aspheric, multiple types supported (e.g. biconic, cylindrical, etc.)
ABCD	Paraxial ABCD for "black box" optics
Alternate	Alternate surface intersection surface, used for grazing incidence mirrors
Conjugate	Two-point perfect-image surface
Gradient index	Axial, radial, transverse, GRADIUM, SELFOC
Zernike	Sag-defined by Zernike polynomials
Zernike phase	Phase-defined by Zernike polynomials
Extended polynomial	Extended term XY polynomial asphere
Binary optic 1	Phase profile XY polynomial
Binary optic 2	Phase profile radial polynomial
Binary optic 3	A multi-zone Binary 2 surface
Extended asphere	Extended-term rotational asphere
Extended spline	Radial spline of arbitrary shape, more terms than the standard spline surface
Extended Fresnel	Aspheric Fresnel on curved base
Elliptical grating	EElliptical grating geometry
Superconic	A unique aspheric expansion
Atmospheric	Atmospheric refraction model
Biconic	Anamorphic conic asphere
Grid phase/sag	Phase or sag defined by tabular points
Zone plate	Fresnel Zone Plate surface model
Retro reflect	A mirror surface that acts as a perfect retro-reflector

Polarization Ray Tracing

Polarization Analysis	Polarization state evolution
	Polarization ellipse pupil map
	System transmission
	Thin Film Coating reflection, transmission, absorption, phase, retardance and diattenuation
	Polarization aberrations
	System transmission fans
	Optimization operands

Thin Film Coatings	Defined by coating prescription
	Dielectric and metallic coatings and layers
	Replicated stacks of coatings
	Automatic reversal of coating layer order at air/glass, glass/air interfaces
	Defined by table of performance
	IDEAL coating for simple listing of coating performance

Tools
Zemax 13 SE contains the following powerful tools.

Type	*Description*
Optimization	Damped least squares algorithm with 20 default merit functions
	MTF and diffraction-encircled energy optimization
	Global optimization
	Optimization of macro computations

Tolerancing	RMS spot size, wavefront, boresight, MTF, user-defined criterion
	Sensitivity, inverse sensitivity, and Monte Carlo analysis
	Tolerance using a procedure script

Thermal Analysis	Comprehensive treatment of thermal effects in optical systems

Catalogs	Glass, Lens and Testplate catalogs from many vendors

Coordinates	Tilt/Decenter Elements
	Add/Remove Fold Mirrors
	Local to Global and Global/Local coordinate conversion

Export	Export to IGES, STEP, SAT and STL solid model CAD exchange formats

Other Tools	Ghost focus generation, single or double-bounce formats
	Zemax Programming Language
	Reverse Elements
	Sliders
	Quick Focus and Quick Adjust
	Add/Adjust/Remove Apertures
	Scale Lens
	Import .INT and .f3d file formats