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ZEMAX and Matlab : A Powerful Pair ZEMAX features a built-in DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) server that allows other Windows? applications access to ZEMAX functions. Programming DDE applications can be somewhat complex if you are working in a compiled language such as C++. An alternative is to use one of the scripting languages such as Tcl, Python or Matlab. Matlab is a great choice since it is much more than a scripting language. Matlab provides a wealth of functions for processing and visualizing scientific and engineering data and there are toolboxes for Matlab that extend the basic capabilities into a wide variety of more specialized areas and disciplines. What Is DDE? DDE is a facility and a protocol provided by Windows to allow applications to communicate.There are a few modes of DDE interaction, the simplest being the exchange of text strings of data. One of the applications must set itself up as a server. ZEMAX is the DDE server in this case, so you dont have to do anything except start ZEMAX. Once you have started ZEMAX, the DDE server is ready and waiting for a client to connect and make requests for services. The client application in this case is Matlab. Accessing ZEMAX from MatLab If you look in the ZEMAX manual in the chapter on ZEMAX Extensions in the section called The Data Items, you will see the various request strings you can send to ZEMAX from Matlab (or from other DDE clients). The manual also documents the reply that ZEMAX will send back to the client application. The requests can be for ZEMAX to perform a particular function or computation, or simply to send back data on the lens currently stored in the ZEMAX DDE server. Now here is an important point to note. ZEMAX always maintains a separate copy of the lens data in the DDE server memory to that available to the user in the ZEMAX Lens Data Editor (LDE). This is a very good policy, since you dont want some DDE client coming in unexpectedly and altering your lens data. There are functions that