[Raytrace] Zernike Polynomial Modeling (Was: Re: TCT (Tilted Component Telescope) designs

[Peter Chen]

HI all:

         I have a copy of Zemax that can take Zernike polynomial 
inputs.  It is on one of my 'to-do' lists to read the Zernike ouput file 
from a Zygo or QuickFringe  data file and model the optical behavior.   I'm 
just getting around to play with the program.  Hopefully the learning curve 
is not too steep there.

          But first I need to tackle a mundane problem.   How do you input 
all those long strings of decimal numbers into Zemax gracefully?   The 
program runs under Windows (2K) but the Cntr-C (copy) Cntr-V (paste) 
utilities don't seem to work.  And I really would like to avoid manually 
typing in all 37  terms.   Any suggestions?

Regards,
P.C. Chen


 > At 07:22 PM 1/17/02 -0500, John Francis wrote:
 > >Has anyone modeled a mirror profile using Zernike polynomials for input
into
 > >a raytrace program?