Optimize systems of symbolically defined lenses and mirrors, test optical components with built-in image processing or data analysis functions, and calculate complex ray-tracing models.
The Mathematica optics solution integrates these capabilities with built-in special functions, advanced differential equation solvers, and the most automated and reliable computation, development, and deployment environment available.
Analyzing data from optical testing
Intensity maps using built-in Zernike polynomials, plotted in three dimensions, for three types of aberration varying from a circle: tilt, defocus, and astigmatism
Exploring optics models with symbolic and numeric calculations
Create interactive graphical tools, like these for studying a polarizer-compensator system and the reflectance from a thin film
Interactively designing lenses, mirrors, lasers, and more
Simple tools for modeling systems of mirrors and lenses, created with Optica and Mathematica
Creating complex ray-tracing models
A solar mirror array modeled with Rayica and Mathematica
Calculating with high-precision arithmetic and numerical precision tracking
A simulation of light bouncing among cylindrical mirrors, where the machine-precision path quickly deviates from the accurate path computed by Mathematica
Sequential and nonsequential ray-tracing, symbolic modeling, and optimization of three-dimensional optical systems with Optica
Optica imports CAD models, Zemax files, and Code V files
Optica has a database of optical materials, more than 6800 commercial optical parts, more than a hundred optical components, lenses, mirrors, light sources, and more
Symbolic optical functions, pupil function, point spread function, modulation transfer function, and more built into Optica
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