RayOpt

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Introduction

Optics design (lenses, cavities, gaussian optics, lasers). Geometric, paraxial, and gaussian ray tracing.

Installation

Install like any usual Python package using

pip

easy_install

setup.py

Anaconda

conda install -c https://conda.anaconda.org/jordens/channel/ci rayopt

The distribution already contains all materials from http://refractiveindex.info/.

More materials

More materials and lenses catalogs can be obtained from the freely available versions of Oslo and Zemax, copied to

catalog/

rayopt/library.py

Zemax .....

More materials and lenses catalogs can be obtained from the freely available versions of Oslo and Zemax, copied to

catalog/

rayopt/library.py

Get

Zemax optics studio 

innoextract 

$ python -m rayopt.library \
Users/$USER/My\ Documents/Zemax/Glasscat \
Users/$USER/My\ Documents/Zemax/Stockcat

OSLO .....

For OSLO, download and install OSLO.::

get and install http://www.lambdares.com/images/OSLO/OSLO662_EDU_Installer.exe
$ python -m rayopt.library \
Users/Public/Documents/OSLO66\ EDU/bin/lmo \
Users/Public/Documents/OSLO66\ EDU/bin/glc

Examples

Usage examples are at in their

own repository

IPython
Notebooks

Tutorial

Notes

Distance ........

The choice of prescription specification is a little different from most other lens design and ray tracing programs. RayOpt associates with an element (surface):

• distance

  (or directional

  offset

  , measured in the global, unrotated coordinate system) of the element's apex relative to the previous element's apex.
• orientation (x-y-z Euler

  angles

  in the rotating frame) with respect to the directional offset
• element properties (type of element,

  curvature

  , aspheric and conic coefficients, focal length of an ideal element)
• optionally, the

  material

  after the element (behind the surface)

Ray data are given at (ray intercepts) or just after (direction cosines, paraxial slopes) the respective element unless stated otherwise (e.g. incidence angles).

The choice of associating the "distance to" and not the "thickness after" with a surface has several advantages: shifts, offsets, tolerances can be implemented in a more straight forward manner, ray propagation becomes more natural and efficient (transfer, intercept, refraction), ray data at the surfaces' apex planes does not need to be tracked. The "thickness after" does not have much meaning in ray trace data as it can only be used later when tracing toward the next element and its direction is typically ill defined. Compared to most other programs the distance data is the thickness data shifted by one element towards the object.

Object and Image ................

Object and image are located at the first (index 0) and last (index -1) surface respectively. This naturally allows tracking their positions, material and shape data and supports curved objects and images naturally. Further data like pupils data are maintained in the two

Conjugate

System

Therefore, a minimal system of a single lens consists of fours surfaces: object, the two lens surfaces (one of which can be the aperture stop) and the image surface. The

offset

material

Literature

• Warren J. Smith: Modern Optical Engineering, McGraw-Hill 2000: concise and methods derivation from paraxial all the way to arbitrary ray tracing, with terminology explained and examples given
• Michael Bass (ed): Mandbook of Optics I and II, OSA/McGraw-Hill 1995: physical foundations, broad on optics, comprehensive on theory, some info on numerics, some example designs
• Daniel Malacara: Handbook of Optical Design, Marcel Dekker Inc. 1994: Introduction, Aberations, Examples, more info on terminology, especially in ray tracing programs and codes
• Daniel Malacara: Geometrical and Instrumental Optics, Academic Press Inc. 1988: less info about algorithms and numerical methds, more examples and use cases, speciality lens designs
• Robert R. Shannon: The Art and Science of Optical Design, Cambridge University Press 1997: many examples with Oslo and Zemax, not very thorough on numerical methods and foundations, good for material comparison with own codes.
• Michael J. Kidger: Intermediate Optical Design, SPIE Press 2004: info on optimization techniques and algorithms, higher order aberrations, lots of example designs
• Milton Laikin: Lens Design, CRC Press 2007: little bit of basic theory, lots of basic and paradigmatic example designs
• Oslo Optics

  manual 

  _ and

  reference 

  _
• Zemax

  manual 

  _