Surfaces

This section describes the surface modules in Optiland. Surfaces are the building blocks of optical systems, and Optiland provides a variety of surface types and properties to support the design and analysis of complex optical systems.

Optiland builds individual surfaces into the so-called SurfaceGroup, which represents a collection of surfaces that form an optical system. Most analyses are performed on the SurfaceGroup level, which abstracts the complexity of individual surfaces and provides a unified interface for optical system design and analysis.

surfaces.converters	Converters
surfaces.image_surface	Image Surface
surfaces.object_surface	Object Surface
surfaces.standard_surface	Standard Surface

Surface Factory

The surfaces.factories subpackage is used to build surface instances based on user-provided inputs. The primary class class in this subpackage is the SurfaceFactory, which orchestrates generation of surfaces and delegates creation of surface subcomponents to several submodules, which are listed here.

surfaces.factories.coating_factory	Coating Factory Module
surfaces.factories.coordinate_system_factory	Coordinate System Factory Module
surfaces.factories.geometry_factory	Geometry Factory Module
surfaces.factories.interaction_model_factory	Interaction Model Factory
surfaces.factories.material_factory	Material Factory Module
surfaces.factories.surface_factory	Surface Factory