Tutorials and examples

Browse the step-by-step tutorials and standalone examples below to see what you can build with BMO.

Tutorials

Beginner

Laser alignment

Lift a HeNe beam with a periscope, fix a misaligned mirror and focus onto a camera.

Mirrors · Detectors · Gaussian beamlets

Intermediate

Miniature microscope

Rebuild the imaging path of the UCLA 2P miniscope.

Doublets · Optical systems · STL meshes

Intermediate

Michelson interferometer

Simulate fringes of a Michelson interferometer with moving mirrors.

Gaussian beamlets · Beamsplitters · Detectors

Advanced

Raman spectroscopy

Model the OpenRAMAN spectrometer with custom components.

Custom components · Gratings · Point sources

Examples

Spherical lens example

Build the common spherical lens types.

Lenses

Simple aspherical lens example

Aspheric surfaces up to a complex mobile phone lens.

Aspheres

Double Gauss lens

Trace a classic double Gauss photographic objective.

Lens systems

Lens groups

Move groups of lenses in a zoom objective.

ObjectGroup · Kinematic API

Point spread functions

Airy disc, aberrated spots and the vectorial focus at high NA.

Detectors · Polarization

Double slit diffraction

Coherent diffraction with astigmatic beamlet decomposition.

Astigmatic beamlets · Diffraction