Optica is an optical design program used for the design and analysis of both imaging and illumination systems.[1] It works by ray tracing the propagation of rays through an optical system. It performs polarization ray-tracing, non-sequential ray-tracing, energy calculations, and optimization of optical systems in three-dimensional space. It also performs symbolic modeling of optical systems, diffraction, interference, wave-front, and Gaussian beam propagation calculations. In addition to conducting simulations of optical designs, Optica is used by scientists to create illustrations of the simulated results in publications. Some examples of Optica being used in simulations and illustrations include holography,[2] x-ray optics, spectrometers,[3] Cerenkov radiation,[4] microwave optics, nonlinear optics, scattering,[5] camera design,[6] extreme ultraviolet lithography simulations,[7][8] telescope optics,[9][10] laser design, ultrashort pulse lasers,[11] eye models,[12][13] solar concentrators[14] and Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) particle detectors.[15]
^"Software Packages Simplify Complex Optical System Design" ESCO optics, Wickersham
^"New software tools facilitate the development of better holographic systems" Holography, The International Society for Optical Engineering, June 2005, Vol. 16, No.1
^Christoph Braig et al., "Design and optimization of a parallel spectrometer for ultra-fast X-ray science", Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 10, pp. 12583-12602 (2014)
^"Experimental Testing of Dynamically Optimized Photoelectron Beams, p12-15" Proceedings of the 46th Workshop of the INFN ELOISATRON Project, Erice, Italy, 9 – 14 October 2005
^"Quantitative image contrast enhancement in time-gated transillumination of scattering media" Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 1866-1883, 2011
^"Measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina with a spectroscopic sensitive multi aperture camera" Optics Express, Vol16, No9, 2008, p 6173
^M. Goldstein, V. Bakshi. Optical Design for Affordable EUV Lithography, Int. Sym. EUVL., Sapporo, Japan (2007).
^"Constructing a Cassegrain Telesope"
^David N. Whiteman, Demetrius Venable, Eduardo Landulfo. (2011) "Comments on “Accuracy of Raman lidar water vapor calibration and its applicabilityto long-term measurements” Applied Optics 50, 2170.
Online publication date: 20-May-2011
^"Numerical analysis of spatial distortions in a single-grating chirped pulse amplification system" Optik
Volume 125, Issue 12, June 2014, Pages 2800–2803
^"A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics" Nature 454, 748-753(7 August 2008)
^http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpticalModelOfTheHumanEye/ " Optica Human Eye Model",
^A. Petrolini, RICH1 and the LHCb/RICH upgrade: re-optimization of the optics; LHCb-PUB-2013-012; CERN-LHCb-PUB-2013-012.
R. Cardinale et al., Test of the photon detection system for the LHCb RICH Upgrade in a charged particle beam; doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/01/P01012.
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