The ZEMAX Optical Design Program is a comprehensive software tool for optical design.

ZEMAX is the perfect tool to design, optimize, and tolerance optical systems. Your system may include refractive, reflective, diffractive, sequential, or non-sequential elements in any combination.

As well as reading about it here, you can download a copy of the demonstration version or get a copy of the ZEMAX brochure in pdf format.

You can use ZEMAX for

• classical lens design, including powerful optimization and tolerancing
• illumination and stray light, using fully unconstrained non-sequential ray-tracing
• laser beam propagation, using powerful physical optics modelling

All of these powerful features are integrated into an intuitive user interface. ZEMAX offers power, speed, flexibility, ease of use, and value in one comprehensive program.

Typical applications include:

Illumination Systems: here three filament lamps in parabolic reflectors illuminate detectors

Lens Design: this is a complex system with 210° field of view.

Scattering & Stray Light: stray sun light bounces around inside a telescope

Fiber Coupling : Two ball lenses couple a laser diode into a fiber

Physical Optics: An array of apertures causes a beam to come to focus

Optima Research is the Authorised European Distributor of ZEMAX. US visitors to this site may prefer to visit the ZEMAX Development Corporation home page.