Tools
VirtualLab™ 4 technology features a variety of new tools which make optical modeling and design easy, accurate and enjoyable.
- Light Path Editor and Light View: This tool allows you to select sources, components and detectors, fix their position in space, and specify the sequence in which the modeling should analyze the effects of components on the light field and the detector signals.
- A non-sequential generalization is planned for release in 2009.
- Parameter Run Editor provides you with a powerful method to define experimental series.
- Session Editors feature a Wizard dialog to help you configure optical modeling tasks.
- VirtualLab™ Explorer assists you with managing your VirtualLab ™ sessions.
- Tolerancing Editor offers a user-friendly dialog for tolerancing your optical systems. This feature will be released in 2009.
- Optimization Editor helps you manage advanced optimization techniques. Standard diffractive optics optimization is featured in v. 4.0. More optimization methods will be released in 2009.
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- The Light Path View and Editor provide you with a user-friendly environment to configure optical setups in laser optics, micro-optics and interferometry. Each component is modeled separately using suitable propagation techniques.
- VirtualLab™ features a unique concept for modeling color, polarization, and temporal and spatial coherence. The example here shows the dispersion of polychromatic light modeled by a blackbody power spectrum.
