| Surface shapes |
Plane, Sphere, Conic
Cylinder (X or Y)
Toroid (X or Y, with 20th order aspheric profile)
Polynomial asphere (20th order)
Swept spline (input via macro)
Spline patch (input via macro)
Anamorphic asphere (20th order)
Odd-power polynomial asphere (30th order)
Zernike (65 terms)
XY Polynomial (10th degree)
Superconic (20th order) |
| Radius specifications |
Radius or curvature |
| Radius type solves (imaging paths only) |
Marginal or chief ray slope
Marginal or chief ray angle of incidence
Marginal or chief ray height
Aplanatic (marginal or chief ray) |
| Thickness solve types (imaging paths only) |
Marginal or chief ray height
Paraxial image location |
| Number of solves per element |
4 (2 radii and 2 thicknesses, imaging paths only) |
Surface characteristics - refract mode
(can be applied to any surface shape) |
Refract (fails on TIR)
Reflect
TIR only (fails on refract)
TIR (refract or reflect, depending on angle of incidence)
Split (refract and reflect, unless TIR)
Absorb (stops rays)
Mechanical (stops rays)
Diffract |
| Surface Scattering |
Lambertian, Gaussian, cosn, user-defined, mixed distributions, elliptical Gaussian (BSDF) |
| Volume Scattering |
Mie, user-defined, or Henyey Greenstein |
| Importance Sampling |
Yes, via aim area and/or aim sphere |
| Surface properties |
Transmittance
Reflectance
User-defined coatings
Polarizing properties (ideal linear polarizer or retarder)
Fresnel loss (calculated transmittance/ reflectance)
Maximum number of hits per non-sequential ray |
| Diffractive surface forms |
Linear grating
Radial polynomial (DOE)
XY polynomial (DOE) |
| Diffraction direction |
Transmission, reflection, both (multiple orders allowed) |
| Glass types |
Catalog glass
Fictitious (Nd and Vd specified)
User materials (optical and non-optical) |
| Glass entry method |
Info dialog box or via Glass Map |
| Glass catalogs supplied |
Schott, Ohara, Hoya, Chance, Corning France, Kodak, Baush & Lomb, Corning, Special or user material |
| Aperture shapes allowed |
Circular, Rectangular, Arcuate, Ellipse, or Bitmap |
| Number of apertures per surface |
Unlimited |
| Aperture location |
Arbitrary location and orientation on surface |