CAXCAD provides the following analysis tools:
Layouts
- 2D cross section
- Solid model with rotation, pan, zoom
- Singlet and doublet element engineering drawing
Fans
- Ray aberration
- Optical path difference
- Pupil aberration
Spot Diagrams
- Standard field-by-field
- Through focus
- Full field (all at common scale)
- Matrix (spot diagrams separated by field and wavelength)
Diffraction Analysis
- Modulation transfer function (MTF), including phase
- Square wave MTF
- Through focus MTF (sine or square)
- Point spread function
- Point spread function cross section
- Surface 3D MTF
- Geometric transfer function (GTF)
- Through focus GTF
- Wavefront map surface plot
Encircled Energy
- Diffraction radial
- Geometric radial, x, y
- Line response
- Edge response
Miscellaneous
- Grid distortion
- Longitudinal aberration
- Lateral color
- Field curvature and distortion
- RMS vs. field
- RMS vs. focus
- Image analysis (extended source imaging capability)
- Interferograms
- Y-Ybar diagram
- Chromatic focal shift
- Vignetting plot
- Dispersion plot, glass map diagrams
Numerical Computations
- First order system data
- Surface power, volume, edge thickness data
- Ray trace data, real and paraxial
- Gaussian beam parameters
- Seidel and Zernike aberrations
- Wavefront, transverse, and longitudinal aberrations
- YNI contributions
- Sag tables, maximum aspheric deviation