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Quick Overview of Optica

Basic Optica User Guide

Principles of Optica

Chapter 1 Introduction to Optica

Chapter 2 Placement Directives

Chapter 3 Ray-Tracing in Detail

Chapter 4 Customization

Chapter 5 Data Handling

Chapter 6 Visualizing

Chapter 7 Working with Clones

Advanced Optica

Chapter 8 Symbolic Calculations

Chapter 9 ABCD Calculations

Chapter 10 Gaussian Beams

Chapter 11 Imaging Functions

Chapter 12 Interference

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What Is LensLab/Optica?

Chapter 1 Basic Features

Chapter 2 How LensLab Does Ray Tracing

Chapter 3 Tour of Component Functions

Chapter 4 Positioning

Chapter 5 Advanced Features

Chapter 6 Experimenting

Chapter 7 Designing

Chapter 8 The Anatomy of Ray

Chapter 9 The Anatomy of Component

Appendix: Reference Guide

Advanced Examples

Advanced TurboTrace

Grating Compressor

Holographic Recording

Aspheric Optimization

Indexed Example

Arbitrary Precision

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Using Optica for the first time

Working with BeamWise

Optica and Mathematica

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