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Tolerancing in Zemax

Lecture 4
Objectives: Lecture 4
At the end of this lecture you should:
1. Understand the reason for tolerancing and
its relation to typical manufacturing errors
2. Be able to perform a Sensitivity Analysis
and Inverse Sensitivity Analysis on a new
design
3. Be able to interpret the data from a Monte
Carlo tolerancing analysis of a new design

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Motivation
• Having designed a lens, it is important to
know how it will perform once it is built.
• Tolerancing a lens is a very important skill to
have.
• Two approaches:
– Perturbing each element individually and
reoptimizing the system each time. Slow but
accurate. Determines the sensitivities of each
element.
– Find all the sensitivities at once by using Zemax’s
tolerancing function. This method is very fast, but
there is a lot of room for mistakes with complex
systems.

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Optical System Tolerancing
1. Define quantitative figures of merit for the
requirements
2. Estimate component manufacturing
tolerances
3. Define assembly/alignment procedure and
estimate mechanical alignment tolerances
4. Calculate sensitivities, estimate
performance
5. Adjust tolerances, keeping cost and
schedule in mind

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System Figure of Merit
• Keep this as simple as possible
• Must propagate all performance specs
through to assembly
• Typical requirements:
– RMSWE (root mean square wavefront error)
– MTF at particular spatial frequencies
– Distortion
– Fractional encircled energy
– Beam divergence
– Geometric RMS image size
– Dimensional limits

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Dimensional Tolerances for
Machined Parts
• Depends on fabrication methods and
equipment
• Rules of thumb for machined parts:
– ± 1 mm for coarse dimensions that are not
important
– ± 0.25 mm for typical machining without
difficulty
– ± 0.025 mm precision machining, readily
accessible
– < ± 0.002 mm high-precision, requires special
tooling

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Dimensional Tolerances for
Optical Elements
• Diameter
• Clear aperture
• Thickness
• Wedge Angles
– wedge or optical deviation for lenses
– angles for prisms
• Bevels
• Mounting surfaces
Start with nominal tolerances from lens fabricator

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Tolerancing Surface Shape
• Specifications are based on measurement:
– Inspection with test plate:
• Typical spec: 0.5 fringe
– Measurement with phase shift interferometer:
• Typical spec: 0.05 λ rms
• For most diffraction-limited systems, rms surface gives
a good figure of merit
• Special systems require a Power Spectral Density
(PSD) spec
• Aspheric systems really need a slope spec, but this is
uncommon. Typically, assume the surface
irregularities follow low order forms and simulate them
using Zernike polynomials

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Rules of Thumb for Optical
Assemblies

Base: Typical, no cost impact for reducing tolerances beyond this.


Precision: Requires special attention, but easily achievable in most
shops, may cost 25% more
High precision: Requires special equipment or personnel, may cost
100% more
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Rules of Thumb for Lens
Tolerances

Base: Typical, no cost impact for reducing tolerances beyond this.


Precision: Requires special attention, may cost 25% more
High precision: Requires special equipment may cost 100% more
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Rules of Thumb for Glass
Tolerances

Base: Typical, no cost impact for reducing tolerances beyond this.


Precision: Requires special attention, may cost 25% more
High precision: Requires special equipment, may cost 100% more
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Zemax Tolerancing Capabilities
• Can set tolerances in the tolerance data editor for
a wide variety of parameters
– The default tolerance generator can
automatically enter tolerances for: radius of
curvature, surface form, lens thickness, position, x
and y tilt, x and y decentre, irregularity, wedge,
glass index, Abbe number, and more.
• Must define what compensators to use (e.g. focus,
tilt, position of any optical element) in sensitivity
analysis
• Can select the tolerance criteria (e.g. RMS
wavefront, RMS spot radius)

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Zemax Tolerancing Tools

• ZEMAX conducts an analysis of the


tolerances using any or all of these
three tools:
– Sensitivity Analysis
– Inverse Sensitivity Analysis
– Monte Carlo Analysis

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I: Sensitivity Analysis
• The sensitivity analysis considers each
defined tolerance sequentially
(independent).
• Parameters are adjusted to the limits of
the tolerance range, and then the
optimum value of each compensator is
determined.
• A table is generated listing the
contribution of each tolerance to the
performance loss.

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II: Inverse Sensitivity Analysis
• The inverse sensitivity analysis
iteratively computes the tolerance
limits on each parameter when the
maximum or incremental degradation
in performance is defined.
• Limits may be overall or specific to
each field or configuration.

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III: Monte Carlo
• Monte Carlo analysis is extremely powerful and useful
because all tolerances are considered at once.
• Random systems are generated using the defined
tolerances.
• Every parameter is randomly perturbed using
appropriate statistical models, all compensators are
adjusted, and then the entire system is evaluated
with all defects considered.
• User defined statistics based upon actual fabrication
data is supported.
• ZEMAX can quickly simulate the fabrication of large
numbers of lenses and reports statistics on simulated
manufacturing yields.

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Zemax Example
• Open the file DOUBLET-LECT4.ZMX
• Go to the Tolerance tab
• Remove all variables/solves
• Open the Tolerance Wizard

• Adjust default tolerances as required


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Tolerance Data Editor

• Here you adjust each of the tolerances


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Tolerance Mnemonics
• Tolerance
operands
tell ZEMAX
which
parameters
in the
system to
change.
• ZEMAX uses
four letter
mnemonics
for the basic
tolerances

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Zemax Tolerancing
• Choose Tolerancing from the
menu bar
• Select the mode: Sensitivity
(default)
• Check Force Ray Aiming On
(slower but more accurate)
• Select the Criteria: RMS Spot
Radius
• Set the Compensator: Paraxial
focus (default)
• Select Monte-Carlo to check
number of runs (20 OK)
• Check Display -> Show
Compensators (to see how
much focus changes for
example).

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Tolerancing Results

Numbers needed to calculate the sensitivities:

Perturbations Change in merit function

Focus compensation

Radius tolerance for surface 2

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Tolerancing Results

Worst Offenders

Monte Carlo
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Summary: Lecture 4
• Tolerancing is a critical step to ensure that
a lens design can be manufactured and
to predict its expected performance
• Difficult because it involves complex
relationships across different disciplines
• Zemax has many very powerful design
tolerancing capabilities
• Important to understand how Zemax
does the sensitivity analysis before you
can blindly use it.

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Exercises: Lecture 4
• Perform tolerance analysis of the Cooke
triplet lens designed in the exercise for
Lecture 3
• Use precision mechanical dimensional
tolerances and λ/20 RMS surface form error
• What is the mean increase in RMS spot
radius from the Monte Carlo simulation ?
• Which are the three most critical
dimensional tolerances ?

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