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Zemax User Guide — Comprehensive Overview

This guide provides a long, structured, practical overview of using Zemax OpticStudio (ray-tracing and optical design software). It assumes OpticStudio (Zemax) familiarity at beginner-to-advanced levels and covers key workflows, tools, optimization strategies, tolerancing, non-sequential design, analysis, scripting, and common tasks. Use the table of contents below to jump to sections that matter.

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• Prisms: add with appropriate geometry in sequential or NS mode; model dispersion and internal reflections.
• Diffractive optical elements (DOEs): use User Defined Surface or built-in DOE operands; include diffraction orders and efficiencies.
• ADCs: model wedge prisms, tune rotation and separation for atmospheric dispersion correction.

• Optical system optimization
• Tolerance analysis
• Sensitivity analysis
• Ray tracing and wavefront analysis