Rayica 2.1
Integrated Optics Package for Mathematica
Rayica is a new generation of optical design software. From
the team that created Optica, it offers unprecedented
flexibility and builds upon the enormous repertoire of symbolic,
numeric, and graphic capabilities in Mathematica. With its
searchable component database of more than 6800 commercial optical
parts, you can design optical systems faster than ever before.
Yet Rayica does not limit you to predefined components, nor
constrain you by limited script languages.
Rayica has a modular building-block architecture that makes
addition of custom components a snap. Aspheric lenses, custom
surfaces, resonating cavities, and optical fibers represent just a few
of the possibilities, from mundane to exotic. Rayica is
limited only by your imagination and the vast possibilities of
Mathematica. If a component or analysis function doesn't exist
in Rayica, you have the tools to build it yourself. The simple
building-block architecture of Rayica also makes it easy to
learn.
The power of Rayica lies not only in the components of
optical systems, but also in the rays themselves. These are
full-fledged system objects in their own right. You can tag specific
rays with descriptive labels and follow them through a complex system.
Optical ray tracing can be sequential or nonsequential. The
ray-tracing engine can even perform traces with arbitrary precision,
beyond standard machine precision.
Rayica's speed has been dramatically improved over that
of Optica. For many applications, Rayica now traces
rays between 15 and 100 times faster, and yet consumes only a fraction
of the memory for the same calculation.
Here is just a bit of what you'll find in Rayica's vast library of
predefined elements:
- 122 optical components
- 38 lenses
- 23 mirrors
- 22 prisms
- 12 light sources
- 22 high-level functions
About the Developer
Donald Barnhart has been developing optical design and analysis
software in Mathematica since 1991. In 1994, while working on his master's
degree, he developed the world's first successful holographic
instrument to measure three-dimensional velocity fields in fluids. He
completed his PhD in 2001 at Loughborough University in
England.
Product Support
Rayica is developed and supported by Dr. Donald Barnhart.
Dr. Donald Barnhart
Optica Software
Division of I-Cyt Mission Technology
2100 South Oak Street
Champaign IL 61820
USA
phone: +1-217-328-9847
email: support@opticasoftware.com
web: http://www.opticasoftware.com
Rayica 2.1 requires
Mathematica 6 and is compatible with all supported
Mathematica platforms.
Rayica is © 2006-2007 Dr. Donald Barnhart.
Note: Rayica is available for sale through Wolfram
Research in the U.S. and Canada only. For international orders, please
contact Optica Software.
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