Roadmap Presentation. European User Group Symposium - March Zemax

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1 Roadmap Presentation European User Group Symposium - March 2018 Zemax

2 Hello! I m Kristen Norton OpticStudio Product Manager Previously Sr Optical Engineer at Zemax Laser & Optics Engineer building laser systems Degrees in physics & applied physics Zemax

3 Agenda Strategy for implementing new features Features that were recently added Features that are coming soon Features that are coming next Zemax

4 Strategy for implementing new features Zemax

5 New feature strategy Three pillars of OpticStudio development Improve your workflow Add your feature requests Make it faster Other updates coming soon Zemax

6 Improve your workflow Optimizing productivity and ease of use Increasing reliability Zemax

7 Add your feature requests We add features based on customer and industry needs Implemented new process for handling feature requests about a year ago Now have an extensive and organized database (more on this in a moment) Zemax

8 Make it faster Large R&D focus since OpticStudio was released Continually improving algorithm efficiency and UI responsivity Examples: OpticStudio optimizes 18 times faster than the [previous] version... -From two-photon microscope So as you can see, 16.5 is really improved, it's even better than Zemax 13. -From a post on the forum about POP I am seeing OpticStudio complete the ray trace in 2/3 the time it took Z13 - From a customer about non-sequential ray tracing But we ll never be done! Zemax

9 Other updates coming soon Supported forum Updates to the knowledgebase Feature request portal: Zemax

10 What s new Zemax

11 Contrast Optimization Optimizes at least 10x faster that traditional MTF operands Almost as fast as wavefront Considers up to a specific frequency Works early in the design process Simplifies the parameter space Zemax

12 Contrast Loss Map Visualize how contrast and MTF degrade across the pupil Circle size indicates the amount of the contrast loss Clock hand indicates wavefront error Zemax

13 Over 200 field points Zemax

14 Updated editor and field viewer Zemax

15 Field converter and wizard New automatic conversion tool for field definitions New wizard to generate different distributions of field points Zemax

16 Convert configurations to non-sequential mode Zemax

17 Convert tolerances to non-sequential mode Zemax

18 API examples & syntax documentation Updated ZOS-API documentation New cross-linked syntax help If you haven t use it before, start with the examples: 25 new examples C#, C++, Matlab, Python Zemax

19 Increased POP sampling density Highest sampling in the UI is 16,384 points Use the API to increase sampling to 1,073,741,824 points Zemax

20 Run sequential tools through ZOS-API Add and remove fold mirrors Reverse the elements in the LDE Scale the system to a specific focal length Simulate a double pass reflection Zemax

21 File Collector Automatically packages all files to troubleshoot or report a bug Potentially sensitive files are flagged and easily removed Zemax

22 Ignore and hide objects Zemax

23 New features coming soon Zemax

24 Freeform aberration analysis Analyze magnitude and orientation of aberrations Prototype available now! Icons coming soon: Zemax

25 Ray tracing with Boolean objects Faster, more accurate, and more reliable nonsequential ray tracing for all Boolean objects Results show up to 10x improvement thus far Boolean objects modeled with high precision native geometry of parent objects Zemax

26 Updates to the NSC converter Complex combinations of surfaces and apertures automatically convert to nonsequential mode Adds a new general lens object Zemax

27 Advanced search in editors New search capability in editors Displays total number of search results Based on excel functionality Can go to First/Last/Next/Previous result Supports wildcard text filtering Includes bookmarks for fast access Will be added to Go To tool: Zemax

28 Max/Min angle of incidence operand New optimization operand to limit minimum or maximum incidence angle Traces chief + marginal rays Reports over a range of surfaces Reports over a range of wavelengths Current alternative requires many operands: Zemax

29 Non-sequential sag analysis User Analysis to create a sag map/table in non-sequential mode. Zemax

30 Polarization sensitive bulk scattering OpticStudio Accurately model polarization of rays that undergo bulk scattering using the Mie phase model Can incorporate fluorescence as well Written by post-doc researcher at the University of Glasgow, and implemented as a new DLL in non-sequential mode Zemax

31 New features coming next Zemax

32 Locally optimizable grid sag surface Adding local control to grid surface Specific sections the surface can be optimized independently Includes a visual user interface for modifying the surface Surface will optimize and update as quickly as possible Zemax

33 High resolution graphic export Export high resolution and custom resolution graphics Includes SVG vector graphics Implemented in the Save As Dialog Zemax

34 Tolerance data visualization Visualize tolerance data Requires a new data structure for storing criteria, tolerances, compensators Includes yield statistics and plots Tolerance Viewer Probability Chart Cumulative Distribution Scatter Plot Sensitivity (Text) Traditional Report (Text) Zemax

35 Virtual prototyping workflow Zemax Virtual Prototyping Zemax

36 Future development What else do optical engineers need to build high confidence virtual prototypes? When are you experiencing Difficulty communicating design details? Trial and error troubleshooting? Bottlenecks or inefficient workflows? Failed physical prototypes? Unnecessary hand-offs? Data loss or misinterpretation? Manual data conversion? Zemax

37 Summary Zemax

38 Overview of topics covered OpticStudio development strategy Ease of use, your feature requests, performance speed Recently added new features Contrast operands and analysis, additional field points, field converter and wizard, converting tolerances, converting configs, more functions in ZOS-API, File Collector Features coming soon Freeform analysis, Boolean ray tracing, new lens object, advanced search, non-sequential sag analysis, AOI operands, polarization bulk scattering Features coming next Grid sag optimization, high res graphic export, tolerance data analyses, virtual prototyping workflow, more support for optical engineering workflow Zemax

39 Thank you! Zemax