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CODE V: Capabilities Matrix
Lens Data
| Number of supplied lens models | 2400+, available via the New Lens Wizard or Patent Lens Search capability. |
| Number of surfaces | 990 |
| Number of wavelengths | 21 |
| Spectral weighting | Yes |
| Number of zoom positions | 99 |
| Number of zoomed parameters | 890 (most lens data can be zoomed) |
| Number of fields per zoom position | 25 |
| Number of MUL layers | 1,000 |
| Pupil specification options | Entrance pupil diameter Numerical aperture at object Numerical aperture at image F/number at image |
| Field specification options | Field angle (degrees) Object height Image height (paraxial or real) |
| Wide angle mode with ray input angle | Greater than 90 degrees |
| Vignetting factors | +/-Y and +/-X at entrance pupil, defined for each field point |
| Lens dimension options | Inches, mm, or cm |
| Afocal mode | Perfect lens conversion to an imaging system or true afocal modeling with field-independent accommodation |
| Aperture stop | Definable on any surface (chief ray iterated) |
| Chief ray specification | Can be specified to hit any surface at any location (default is center of stop) |
| Telecentric object | Yes |
| Number of through-focus positions | 18 |
| Environmental specifications | Temperature (default 20deg. C) Pressure (default 760 mm Hg) |
| Surface types | Sphere Conic, Segmented conic, Superconic Polynomial asphere (20th order, 30th order with odd-power terms) Fresnel surface (with aspheric profile, on flat, curve, or cone substrate) Anamorphic asphere (10th order) Cylinder (X or Y) Toroid (X or Y, with 10th order aspheric profile) Spline, Extended spline Other polynomials (Zernike, General XY polynomial) Thermal gradient Lens module User-defined (via user-written subroutine) |
| Diffractive Properties | Can be applied to any base surface: Linear grating Diffractive Optical Element (DOE) Holographic Optical Element (HOE) Scalar diffraction efficiency calculation also supported |
| Radius specification | Radius or curvature |
| Radius solve types | Marginal or chief ray angle Marginal or chief ray angle of incidence Aplanatic (marginal or chief ray) |
| Thickness solve types | Marginal or chief ray height Overall length (of surface group) Edge thickness Paraxial image location Reduction ratio (sets object distance) |
| Pickups | Yes (pickup from like or unlike parameters) |
| Glass types | Catalog glass |
| Fictitious (used for optimization; Nd and Vd specified; partial dispersion can also be specified) | |
| Private catalog (1 to 21 wavelength/index pairs or dispersion formula) | |
| Glass catalogs supplied | Hikari, Sumita, Pilkington, Schott, Ohara, Hoya, Corning France, Kodak, NSG, and "Special Materials" |
| Gradient index | Yes, several forms, including user-defined (via user-written subroutine) |
| Number of user-defined gradient coefficient | 150 |
| Glass property specifications | Specific gravity, transmittance, price, partial dispersion (for fictitious glass) |
| Refractive mode options | Refract (fail on TIR) TIR only (fail on refract) TIR or refract (NSS surfaces only) Reflect |
| Mirror substrate specifications | Material, thickness, rear curvature |
| Aperture shapes | Circular, and/or rectangular, and/or elliptical |
| Aperture types | Clear aperture, obscuration, edge, hole |
| Aperture location on surface | Can be rotated and/or decentered |
| Aperture combinations | Multiple apertures allowed, can be ANDed or ORed (default is AND) |
| Decentrations/tilts | 3-D tilts or decentrations allowed on any surface (can be defined locally or globally) |
| Decentration/tilt types | Regular, reverse, decenter-and-return, bend, pure return |
| Non-sequential surfaces | Yes |
| Non-sequential elements (predefined) | Corner cube and roof |
| Refractive mode change | Yes, on specified hit number (up to two changes per surface) |
| Lens arrays | Yes, with uniform or user-specified spacings (all channels identical) |
| Surface coating options | Uncoated Single layer MgF2 (default) Multilayer (user-defined, via MUL option) User-defined surface properties Perfect refractive * Coating thickness variations also supported |
| Apodization options | Gaussian or user-defined (via FIL type interferogram file) |
| Surface deformation | Attached surface interferogram |
| Wavefront deformation | Attached wavefront interferogram (attached to a surface or to a pupil) |
| Polarization specifications | Polarization ellipse (polarized fraction, ratio, orientation, and handedness) Jones vectors Stokes parameters |
| Polarization operators | Retarders (standard or birefringent), polarizers Faraday rotators, Jones matrix, and user defined |
| Uniaxial crystal birefringent ray tracing | Yes |
| Intrinsic cubic crystal birefringent ray tracing | Yes |
| Stress Birefringence Modeling | Yes |
| Tolerance types | Many forms (single surface and surface groups) |
| Number of tolerances | Unlimited |
| Compensator types | Any tolerance can be a compensator |
| Number of compensators | Unlimited |
| Interferogram types | Wavefront Surface deformation Filter (apodization) |
| Interferogram locations | Any surface or pupil |
| Interferogram orientation | Can be scaled, decentered, rotated, or flipped in X or Y |
| User-defined features (via user-written subroutines) | Surface shape Diffractive phase profile Gradient index profile Surface properties Interferogram definition User-defined subroutine |
Lens Operations
| Scale lens | Yes (many variations) |
| Flip surfaces | Yes, in X or Y |
| Copy surfaces | Yes (from current or stored lens) |
| Copy zoom position data | Yes (can insert/delete individual zoom positions too) |
| Automatic data setting | Pupil specification (EPD, NA, NAO, FNO) Centered or decentered apertures Vignetting factors |
| Environmental scaling | Yes, for temperature and pressure, including radial thermal gradients |
System Display Options
| OpenGL 3D rendering | Yes, includes mouse interaction |
| Line drawings | Yes, profiles, slices, perspective views |
| Lens element drawings | CODE V format |
| ISO10110 standard | |
| Chinese National Standard | |
| Tabular output | Complete listing of all model information |
Optimization
| Number of optimization targets | Unlimited |
| Number of variables | 999 |
| Number of variables plus constraints | 10,000 |
| Number of coupled components | 700 |
| Number of groups | 40 |
| Number of components in groups | 80 |
| Local optimization method | Damped least squares |
| Global optimization method | Global Synthesis? (unique algorithm proprietary to 草榴社区) |
| Constraint handling | Lagrange multipliers (default) or include in error function Equality or bounded constraints supported |
| Constraint type categories | Optical definitions Manufacturing and packaging Paraxial ray trace data 1st and 3rd order aberrations Real ray trace data Diffractive property controls Surface parameter controls User-defined constraints |
| Optimization controls | Yes, many optional controls to impact convergence; ray grid definition, field, pupil, and wavelength weighting |
| Error function types | RMS spot size (default) RMS OPD Diffraction MTF User-defined (including Zernike wave front terms) Fiber coupling efficiency (including general beam propagation diffraction) |
| Automatic test plate fitting | Yes |
| Cam calculation for zoom lenses | Yes |
Application Programming Interface
| COM Support | Yes |
Image Analysis Options
| Diagnostic analysis options | First-order ray trace Third-order & higher order aberration analysis Real single ray trace (many types) Aberration curves (transverse or OPD) Field curves (astigmatism and distortion) Pupil map (OPD over the pupil) Field map (RMS spot, RMS wavefront, astigmatism, distortion, Zernike terms) Gaussian beam analysis Footprint analysis Cat's eye plot |
| Geometrical analysis options | Spot diagram Radial energy distribution Geometrical MTF Detector energy distribution Scanned quadrant detector Biocular analysis Line spread function (knife-edge) |
| Diffraction analysis options | RMS wavefront error |
| Illumination analysis | Yes |
Tolerancing Options
First/third order
RMS wavefront error/MTF
Chief ray distortion
User-defined on any performance criteria
Fiber coupling efficiency
Polarization-dependent loss
Fabrication Support Options
Cost analysis
Weight and center of gravity
CAD Export (IGES, STEP, SAT formats)
Alignment (via interface with measured interferograms)
System Analysis Options
Spectral analysis
System transmittance
Ghost image analysis (paraxial)
Narcissus (scanned IR systems)
Multilayer design program
Macro-PLUS
| Number of variables | Unlimited |
| Variable types | Numeric and string |
| Arrays | 1 or 2 dimensions (unlimited size) |
| Branching | IF, ELSE IF, GOTO |
| Loops | FOR, UNTIL, WHILE |
| Built-in functions | Mathematical (sin, cos, tan, etc.) String (substring, concatenate, etc.) Optical (sag, surface astigmatism, transformation matrix, Gaussian quadrature weights) Ray trace User-defined FFTs |
| Input/Output | Read/write (formatted or unformatted) |
| File interface | Read, write, append (ASCII files) |
| Lens database access | Yes |
| Spreadsheet capability | Yes (Worksheet Buffer?) |
| Macro library | Over 100 macros supplied |
Product Support
| License Terms | Monthly or annual lease |
| Technical Support | Included at no extra cost |
| Software Updates | Included at no extra cost |
| Documentation Updates | Included at no extra cost |