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Enjoy Optical Modeling Beyond Ray Tracing with LightTrans’ New VirtualLab™ 4
VirtualLab 4.0 unifies modeling techniques ranging from geometrical optics to electromagnetic approaches on one single platform. Light path diagrams allow user-friendly set up of optical systems and combines sources, components and detectors. Source models include polarization, color and temporal / spatial coherence. Components come with their own modeling approaches, e.g., lenses use geometrical optics and gratings the rigorous Fourier Modal Method. VirtualLab ensures that the different modeling approaches per component work together in system modeling.
· Starter Toolbox : All in One - From Geometrical to Physical Optics
With the VirtualLab™ Starter Toolbox, you can benefit from the innovative concept of unified optical modeling. This Toolbox offers a wide variety of modeling techniques, such as geometrical optics and wave and split-step propagation, all of which run on a single software platform. The accuracy of your modeling can be adjusted according to your needs. The sources, components and detectors in this Toolbox are extremely flexible when it comes to configuring and analyzing optical systems for any number of applications, including laser optics, micro-optics and interferometry. The Toolbox allows you to specify your laser beam, plane or spherical wave and propagate it through lenses, aspherical interfaces, lens systems imported from Zemax®, index-modulated components, apertures and stops, grating transmissions and diffractive elements. You can also analyze field parameters with detectors.
· Diffractive Optics Toolbox: Design of Diffractive Beam Splitters, Diffusers, Beam Shapers
The VirtualLab™ Diffractive Optics Toolbox allows you to design diffractive beam splitters, diffusers and beam shapers. These elements are also known as diffractive optical element, computer generated hologram, phase plate or kinoform. Diffractive beam splitters allows you to split a laser beam into beam arrays or beams with arbitrary angles of deflection. Not only can you individually determine the weight of every split beam, but you can also design additional diffractive diffusers to generate circular, rectangular or arbitrary 2-D output patterns. This Toolbox allows you to optimize your diffusers for coherent and partially coherent light sources in order to develop homogenizing or pattern-generating systems for LEDs and excimer lasers.
· Grating Toolbox : Rigorous and Approximate Analysis of Gratings
The VirtualLab™ Grating Toolbox provides you with numerous methods and tools to analyze gratings and photonic crystals. Various types of gratings can be analyzed with a variety of techniques like the rigorous Fourier modal method (FMM) and other approximation methods in order to test the validity of approximations. With this toolbox you can also analyze the diffraction efficiency, and near and far fields. Moreover, polychromatic input fields make it possible to analyze the grating dispersion. Polarization is included in all the simulations.
· Laser Resonator Toolbox : Modeling Physical States in Optical Cavities
The VirtualLab™ Laser Resonator Toolbox is designed to solve your resonator modeling tasks. For LASCAD users it offers extended techniques for analyzing laser resonators using Fox-Li and Arnoldi algorithms. In a typical application scenario, you are asked to specify your laser resonator configuration by selecting components, such as mirrors, interface sequences, index-modulated media, laser crystal, diffractive optical elements, ideal components like the ideal lens or a generalized Jones matrix. You then begin the eigenmode analysis to obtain the fundamental mode and its eigenvalue.
· VirtualLab Technology™ : Electromagnetic Field Kernel
VirtualLab™ is the only optical modeling software on the market based on a unified optical modeling platform. This platform guarantees full compatibility with all source models and arbitrary propagation techniques through components. Furthermore, light fields can be evaluated with any type of measurement specification by detectors. This technological advance offers you unsurpassed flexibility and accuracy in optical system modeling. By combining various toolboxes in the VirtualLab™ product family, you will have all the necessary tools for your application at your disposal.
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