Zemax and Code V

• Optics and Optical Images
• Ray trace optics

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Importing Zemax and Code V lens data

ISETCam's ray trace optics model needs, as input, the geometric distortion, relative illumination, and a set of point spread functions (as a function of wavelength and field height) extracted from a lens design program. We have macros for extracting this information from both Zemax (OpticStudio) and Code V.

This material is from Xin-Yi Pan and Zhenyi Liu; see their GitHub repository for the scripts. The summary below is drawn from their Psych 276 write-up, also in that repository. Reach out to Pan or Zhenyi for more help with these tools.

The following sections are not yet written up here; see the linked repository for the current scripts and its write-up in the meantime.

ISETCam: making the geometric distortion and PSF functions

Not yet written.

ISET3D: making the JSON lens file

Not yet written.

Inverse: moving an ISET3D lens file into Zemax

Not yet written.

Validation

We have validated that ISETCam's import of Zemax-derived data produces a rendered image that matches the one calculated directly in Zemax. A similar macro and validation exist for Code V.

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