Zemax Optical Designer

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Zemax optical design skill for lens systems, imaging optics, and tolerancing analysis

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Zemax Optical Designer skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/domains/science/physics/skills/zemax-optical-designer/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Purpose

Provides expert guidance on Zemax optical design, including sequential ray tracing, tolerance analysis, and optical system optimization.

Capabilities

  • Sequential ray tracing
  • Non-sequential analysis
  • Tolerance analysis
  • MTF and PSF calculation
  • Coating optimization
  • Stray light analysis

Usage Guidelines

  1. System Setup: Define optical surfaces and materials
  2. Ray Tracing: Perform sequential and non-sequential analysis
  3. Optimization: Optimize lens systems for performance
  4. Tolerancing: Analyze manufacturing tolerances
  5. Stray Light: Evaluate stray light and ghost reflections

Tools/Libraries

  • Zemax OpticStudio
  • Python ZOS-API

Signals

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Key
zemax-optical-designer
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter