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:
Main input capabilities:
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:
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Main features
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, that can be long to realize and that are not necessary obvious for the user.
The USER CASES SOLVER takes advantage of the 2 modules (ADVANCED/HANDY CALCULATIONS) and automates calculation/simulation sequences to solve in 1 click complete problems that could take hours or days to experts. It is also accessible to non experts and can provide them solutions to complex problems with very limited learning.
The USER CASES SOLVER allows to significantly speed up developments, minimize errors probability and overcome possible blocking shortcomings.
It can apply in many different fields and each solver is mostly produced on demand. We are always interested in developing new solutions and invite users to submit us their application.
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STUDENT LICENSE |
NO LICENSE |
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HANDY CALCULATIONS | (286 calculations) |
(110 calculations) |
(53 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 | 4179 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 |