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Expertise in ZEMAX Imaging and Illumination Systems Design

Optics for Hire has three seats of ZEMAX and one of FRED for optical and illumination modeling.  We use SolidWorks and AutoCad for opto-mechanical engineering.

Good optical 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 product design.

Our mechanical engineers are experience with zoom lens and multi element lens design. They work together with the optical engineers to ensure centering and positioning tolerances are met in an structure that is manufacturable and cost effective.

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

 Light spot created by LED streetlight                                    Scanning F-Theta lens

                                  
     Wide angle LED Lens                                                   LED projector with TIR lens

Microscope objective lens