Macro usage for analyzing of a telescopic system aberrations in ZEMAX

Abstract

Abstract The experience of optical system aberration analysis using ZEMAX software demonstrates the necessity to acquire and combine data from different text windows such as windows of Longitudinal Aberration, Ray Fan, Field Curvature and Distortion, Lateral Colour etc. This routine operation takes much time and significantly slows down the design process. Moreover, an engineer should always remember about some features of data interpretation connected with different calculation algorithms in different optical schools. It instigated us to develop a macro that forms one-window aberration summary for afocal systems with proper data interpretation according to domestic optical scientific school.