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Expertise in ZEMAX Imaging and Illumination Systems Design

Optics for Hire has three seats of ZEMAX for optical and illumination modeling.  We use SolidWorks and AutoCad for opto-mechanical engineering and do our own firmware and electronics design.

Good lens design is art as much as it is science.  The optimized output of a ray tracing program is only as good as the input design.  To fully take advantage of the features provided by ZEMAX takes years of regular use.  Our engineers have used these programs as part of their daily work for 5-10 years each, and we have developed custom DLLs to speed up design.

Check out our recent article on a unique technique for illumination design that was published in ZEMAX Users' Knowledge Base. Below are examples of output images with ZEMAX.

                            
  Projection Lens-MTF curves                                          Calculated flashlight spot uniformity

                              
  Ray trace of F-Theta lens                                                  LED projector with TIR lens