Zemax User Manual !new! (OFFICIAL)

: Accessed directly through the "Help" menu within OpticStudio or via the Ansys Learning Hub .

Best practices & troubleshooting

Dr. Aris Thorne had spent three years building the Erebus , a space-based telescope designed to photograph the atmospheric chemistry of exoplanets in the Trappist-1 system. The Erebus was his masterpiece—a complex ballet of mirrors, lenses, and gratings. But on the eve of its launch, the primary focusing actuator failed. The replacement part, sourced from a different vendor, had a focal shift of 0.4 microns. To the naked eye, nothing. To the Erebus , it meant blindness. zemax user manual