Research of Aberration characterization using two different optical design softwares

There are many optical design softwares, but they are different in forms and expression ways for aberration characteristics, especially between domestic and overseas softwares. The difference is very obvious, for example, the sphere aberration is called “longitudinal aberration”in ZEMAX developed by USA Focus Software Company, but there are some other expressions for it in domestic software including CAOD developed by Beijing Science Technology University, and some other aberration parameters still need to be transferred. In this paper, the beam path of the same cemented double lens was calculated by both ZEMAX and CAOD optical design softwares, and their calculation results of axile aberration, comatic aberration, field curvature, distortion were compared. The purpose of comparison is to build the transforming relationship between the parameters of optical aberration characteristics for the domestic and overseas softwares, and is to provide the way for optical designers to check and recalculate the data with different softwares during designing a lens or optical system.