Optiland

Getting Started

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Installation
Quickstart — Your First 5 Minutes
API Cheat Sheet
Glossary
Optiland GUI Quickstart

Core Functionalities

Functionalities

Example Gallery

Introduction
Basic Lenses
Specialized Lenses
Reflective Systems
Analysis
OPD, PSF, and MTF
Optimization
Tolerancing
Freeform Optics
Diffractive and Generalized Phase Surfaces
Differentiable Ray Tracing
Real-World Projects
External Tools Using Optiland
Extended Sources
Miscellaneous

Learning Guide

1. Foundational Lens Design
2. Real Raytracing & Analysis
3. Lens Optimization
4. Off-Axis & Complex Systems
5. Polarization & Coatings
6. Tolerancing & Physical Effects
7. Differentiable Raytracing
8. Extending Optiland
9. Machine Learning in Optical Design

Developer's Guide

1. Introduction
2. System Requirements
3. Installation
4. Getting Starting with the Codebase
5. Architecture Overview
6. Code Structure
7. Configurable Backend
8. Ray Tracing Framework
9. Surface Overview
10. Interaction Models
11. Propagation Models
12. Geometry Overview
13. Analysis Framework
14. Optimization Framework
15. Tolerancing Framework
16. Multi-Configuration Framework
17. Visualization Framework
18. Optiland File Format
19. Optiland GUI
20. Extension Recipes

Contributing

Contributing to Optiland

API Reference

Introduction
Analysis
Prescription
Backend
Coatings
Core
Fields
File IO
Geometries
Interactions
Materials
Machine Learning (ML)
Optic
Optimization
Paraxial
Phase
Physical Apertures
Rays
Ray Trace
Solves
Sources
Surfaces
Thin Film
Tolerancing
Visualization
Wavefront Analysis
Zernike
Multi-Configuration

Authors

Authors

License

MIT License

References

References

Optiland

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Classes

FFTPSF(optic, field, wavelength[, num_rays, ...])

Factory class for generating either a Vectorial or Scalar FFT PSF.

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