Optiland

Getting Started

Installation
Quickstart
Optiland Cheat Sheet
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. Introduction to Optiland
2. Real Raytracing & Analysis
3. Aberrations
4. OPD, PSF, & MTF
5. Optimization
6. Coatings & Polarization
7. Advanced Optical Design
8. Tolerancing
9. Lens Catalogue Integration
10. Extending Optiland
11. Extended Source Modeling
12. 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

Contributing

Contributing to Optiland

API Reference

Introduction
Analysis
Backend
Coatings
Core
Fields
File IO
Geometries
Interactions
Materials
Machine Learning (ML)
Optic
Optimization
Paraxial
- 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

Paraxial
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Paraxial

This section provides an overview of the paraxial optics module in Optiland. This module enables the user to perform paraxial analysis of the optical system.

Paraxial Module

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