Introduction

This section of the documentation is intended for users that want to dive deeper into the functionality provided this package. A table of content is given below. If you want to develop the package or add your own optical elements, beam types or optical interactions, refer to the API design section. If you want to learn more about specific optical components, you can skip ahead to the Optical components section of the documentation.

Basics overview

• Rays
• • Basic Ray
  • Polarized Rays
  • • Fresnel coefficients
• Beams
• • Basic beam
  • Beam groups
  • • Collimated beam source
    • Point beam source
  • Gaussian beamlet
  • • Complex ray tracing
    • Stigmatic Beamlets
    • Astigmatic Polarized Beamlets
• Optical elements
• • Objects and shapes
  • • Separation of geometry and optical interactions
    • Multi-shape objects
  • Types of elements
  • Moving optical elements
  • Groups of optical elements
• Optical systems
• • Tracing logic
  • • Tracing systems
    • Retracing systems