ZEMAX is powerful software for optical system design, and has extensive capabilities to be extended by writing user-defined routines.

This intensive two-day course covers all the programmability features of ZEMAX, including:

• ZPL macros for data analysis, graphing, keyboard automation and optimization

• User-defined surfaces for refractive, diffractive and filtering applications

• User-defined gradient index materials

• User-defined non-sequential objects, sources and scattering functions

• Interacting with ZEMAX from other programs, and producing compiled extensions to ZEMAX.

The course will use ZEMAX' own built-in ZPL language, C programming and Visual Basic programming to demonstrate and teach the wide range of extensibility available. The course will concentrate on the concepts and practices of programming ZEMAX, and will assume that participants have some prior programming experience, although knowledge if C programming itself is not required.

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Course Instructor

Neil Barrett is General Manager of Optima Research.