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Optica

 
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

 

LensLab/Optica

(Also for Optica users.)

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
Custom Mirror
Sun Example
Sun Source
Aspheric Optimization
Backus Grating
Luneberg Lens
Indexed Example
Arbitrary Precision
 

Video Tutorials

Using Optica for the first time
Working with BeamWise
Optica and Mathematica
 
 
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