ADVANCED CALCULATIONS
ADVANCED CALCULATIONS is designed for the analysis/optimization of optical components and systems. It offers a wide range of possibilities. For instance, non spherical surfaces (aspherical, biconics, gratings,...) and tilted/decentered surfaces can be simulated. Laser to fiber coupling calculations are possible as well as transmission computations with different kind of light sources including grey bodies. Many options for calculation and display are available as well as contextual support features.
Main analysis features:
- 2D ray tracing
- 3D ray tracing
- Spot diagram
- Full field spot diagram
- Ray aberration
- Encircled energy
- Distortion
- Wave Front error (WFE)
- Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)
- Point Spread Function (PSF)
- Vignetting
- Transmitted flux
- Laser beam propagation
- Laser beam coupling in fiber optics
- Optimization
- Rays position merit functions (new!)
- ZEMAX translator
- Longitudinal chromatism
- Paraxial conjugation...
Main input capabilities:
- Quick entry (new!)
- Ray tracking (new!)
- Off-axis optical systems
- Spherical and non spherical surfaces
- Ideal lenses
- Glass catalogs
- Components catalogs
- Prisms and gratings catalogs (new!)
- Obturations
- Various sources
- Black/grey bodies
- Display and calculation options...
HANDY CALCULATIONS
HANDY CALCULATIONS covers a wide field of photonics. It is broken down into plenty of user friendly pages requesting a few number of input and enabling quick online computations. Each page proposes contextual support features (page and parameters descriptions, glossary, usage tips) as well as tutorials for a better understanding of photonics and a better use of the application. They can be used alone or in a sequence of calculations for solving a practical or theoretical problem in photonics and not only in geometrical optics. Here are the main features:
Topics
- Diffraction
- Fiber optic
- Geometrical optics
- Interference
- Laser
- Optoelectronics
- Polarization
- Radiometry/photometry
- Miscellaneous
Main features
- Actually 280 calculation pages
- Calculation search with keywords
- Explanatory schemes
- Contextual support
- Specific tutorials
- Glass catalogs
- Variable parameters
- Graphic display
USER CASE SOLVER New!
Developing a new product, a new process or a new experiment involving photonics requests in general different calculation and simulation sequences to be run in a certain order.
For instance, finding an optimum configuration for coupling a laser beam into a fiber optics or estimating the Signal To Noise Ratio obtained on a camera pixel knowing the light source, the scene and the imaging system require a number of calculation/simulation steps using both the HANDY CALCULATIONS and the ADVANCED CALCULATIONS tools and that are not necessary obvious for the user.
Hopefully, USER CASE SOLVER is an interactive online guide for solving problems in photonics. It consists of a page containing all the information and links to the tools necessary to solve a given problem.
This page contains, among other things, the sequence of calculations/simulations to be performed, the links to the various calculation and modeling pages to be used, the necessary explanations for entering the input parameters...
Using the USER CASE SOLVER allows to significantly speed up developments, minimize errors probability and overcome possible blocking shortcomings.
USER CASE SOLVER is mostly produced and uploaded on users demand. Therefore, do not hesitate to send us your needs!
FEATURES TABLE
| PREMIUM LICENSE |
STUDENT LICENSE |
NO LICENSE |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| HANDY CALCULATIONS | (280 calculations) |
(108 calculations) |
(51 calculations) |
| Glass catalogs | All | Theoretical - Schott (LASF35, N-BK10 and LITHOSIL-Q) | Theoretical |
| Variable input | Yes | No | No |
| Maximum steps (variable Input) | 200 | x | x |
| Graphic output (certain pages) | Yes | No | No |
| ADVANCED CALCULATIONS | Yes | Yes | No |
| Number of surfaces | 22 | 5 | X |
| Glass catalogs | All | Theoretical - Schott (LASF35, N-BK10 and LITHOSIL-Q) | Theoretical |
| Number of fields | 7 | 2 | X |
| Number of wavelengths | 7 | 3 | X |
| Surfaces types | All | Spherical-Conical-Thin lens-Even asphere | X |
| Apertures | All | Circular aperture | X |
| Light sources | All | Isotropic-Circular lambertian | X |
| Grey body | Yes | No | X |
| Paraxial laser beam propagation | Yes | No | X |
| Laser beam coupling in a fiber optic | Yes | No | X |
| Lenses catalog | 2911 references | 6 references | 1094 ref. (consultation only) | Mirrors catalog | 3790 references | 35 references | 3790 ref. (consultation only) |
| Aperture sampling (WFE & PSF) | 64 | 32 | X |
| Aperture sampling (MTF) | 80 | 40 | X |
| Observation plane sampling (PSF) | 100 | 50 | X |
| Observation plane sampling (MTF) | 80 | 40 | X |
| Max source/aperture sampling (transmission) | 200 | 100 | X |
| Optimization | Yes | Yes | X |
| ZEMAX translator | Yes | No | X |
| USE CASES | Yes | No | No |
| TUTORIALS | Yes | Yes | No |
| GLOSSARY | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GUIDE (text and videos) | Yes | Yes | Yes |