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Demos
Physical optics enables the access to any kind of light information in the desired image plane.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip08.09.2020
This Demo shows how to use a programmable detector, which can save the simulation result with interested parameter information include in the file name.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo we show how to import bitmap files into VirtualLab Fusion.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
Demo the diffraction efficiency of a volume holographic grating is investigated, which was generated by an impinging spherical and plane wave.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo we will show how to import measured chirped mirror data.
- Demo (PDF)pdf28.11.2019
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo, we introduce a serrated beam apodizer.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
We will vary the separation between two fibers and simulate the electromagnetic field behavior on the x-z plane within the computational region.
- Demo (PDF)pdf28.11.2019
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
A phase-only transmission function is designed using the iterative Fourier transform algorithm. As an additional step, a phase-only transmission is designed without any phase dislocations.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
In this example, we demonstrated how to model an intraocular lens system using a conical diffractive lens.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
This demonstration shows the design of a DOE to widen a gausian into a top-hat shape.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
We simulate a lightguide outcouple efficiency using a slanted outcouple grating and an ideal or binary incouple grating.
- Demo (PDF)pdf28.11.2019
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.11.2019
In this demo we demonstrate a propagation of a Plane Wave through a Luneburg lens.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this Use Case we demonstrate a propagation of a Plane Wave through a Luneburg lens.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo, we illustrate the Fourier Transforms in an immersion objective system by using stratified media component.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
The microstructures are analyzed rigorously in order to calculate accurate diffraction efficiencies for structure sizes in the range of the used wavelength.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip25.05.2020
This demonstration shows the capabilities of VirtualLab Fusion to calculate higher resonator modes together with their corresponding Eigenvalues.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demonstration we show how to import GRIN-Media which are defined after “Gradient 5”-Shema in Zemax OpticStudio®.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo, we show how to import measured lens surface data to VirtualLab Fusion.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
This demonstration shows a tool to import nonequidistant sampled surface that are given through lists in a .csv-file.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
This Demo shows how to use precalculated efficiency to define a grating in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo, we illustrate the workflow of how to import the BSDF measurement data into VirtualLab Fusion.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this Demo we modeled the light propagation through lenses with a modulated refractive index.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip08.09.2020
Such metalenses are sensitive to the polarization of the input field and in this example we demonstrate the polarization behavior.
- Demo (PDF)pdf28.11.2019
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.11.2019
This demonstration shows the possibility in VirtualLab Fusion to include measured GDD-Data to control the shape of a pulse.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this Demo we seek to model the Moiré pattern in an optical setup.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In the Panel Type Source a uniform grid can be defined, where each point emits a spherical wave. Exemplarily, a uniform grid and a Gaussian profile is shown.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip08.09.2020
This demonstrations shows the propagation of a gaussian beam for a distance of 10 km.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
This demonstration shows the propagation of a field through an uneven pinhole.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this setup we want to demonstrate a pulse train source that generates pulse trains by constructing a corresponding spectrum (frequency comb).
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip20.11.2020
This demonstration simulates a retro reflector with rough surfaces.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
This demonstration shows the reflection of a field on a rough surface.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo we show how to design a diffuser for distinct target pattern for each of the RGB wavelengths. Furthermore, we will generate a Lightguide setup for guiding and separated outcoupling of the RGB modes.
- Demo (PDF)pdf25.05.2020
In this Demo we seek to simulate the interference pattern in a Sagnac interferometer setup.
- Demo (PDF)pdf07.10.2020
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
In this demo we will model the moth-eye structure by a random (statistical) distribution of cones. For this purpose, the Random Cone Interface is used.
- Demo (PDF)pdf28.11.2019
- Demo and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2020
Product Sheets
VirtualLab Fusion can run in batch mode and thus enable cross-platform simulations when used alongside other software tools.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf08.03.2021
How to couple light into optical fibers with high efficiency is of great concern for many applications, e.g., in telecommunication, remote sensing, and lasers.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf08.03.2021
Gratings are important in modern optics. Subwave- and Metastructures require vectorial electromagnetic methods. VirtualLab Fusion provides full solutions.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf08.03.2021
VirtualLab Fusion provides a complete workflow for diffractive-lens and HOE design.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf22.07.2019
The summer release 2019 of VirtualLab Fusion enables their inclusion in systems and therefore the evaluation of overall performance.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf08.03.2021
The VirtualLab AR & VR Solution Package is the only commercially available single-platform software that provides physical-optics modeling of AR & VR lightguides.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf22.07.2019
Metalenses and metasurfaces have risen to scientific fame by virtue of their unique properties for manipulation of electromagnetic fields, and nowadays their fabrication has become feasible.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf08.03.2021
Modern interferometers often consist of light sources with various coherence properties, and different components. VirtualLab Fusion is a unified platform for the modeling of such complex systems based on physical optics and with a user-friendly interface.
- Product Sheet (PDF)pdf22.07.2019
Talks
In this work we discuss a rigorous k-domain (spatial frequency domain) method for fast calculation of electromagnetic fields propagating through GRIN media.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf07.01.2020
- Slides (PDF)pdf18.02.2020
We introduce the concept of geometric and diffractive zones of fields and demonstrate design techniques for different applications of light shaping.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
A lightguide in combination with grating regions is definitely a good candidate and we will discuss the concept and our current strategies to deal with them.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.07.2019
We present the connection of the two specific solvers mentioned above in the context of a field-tracing approach.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
Metasurfaces that are composed of nanopillars with high refractive indices have great potential in different applications. e.g. the LiDAR systems
- Announcement (PDF)pdf12.02.2021
Lightguide-based near-eye display devices are drawing much interest recently, and one of the key technologies are coupling gratings for the planar lightguide.
- Poster (PDF)pdf01.07.2019
VirtualLab Fusion, unlike most other optical simulation software, enables the complete workflow within a single software platform in a seamless manner.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf16.01.2020
- Slides (PDF)pdf18.02.2020
- Sample Files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip18.02.2020
The Local Plane Interface Approximation (LPIA) algorithm, a free space propagation algorithm and the Fourier Modal Method (FMM) are all combined.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Based on the concept of fast physical optics, we develop a theory to efficiently propagate the field in GRIN media, including the effect of polarization cross-talk.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Advanced microscopy is often designed with physical-optics principles involved and they are used for the investigation of more complicated effects/phenomena.
We perform a fast-physical optics modeling of two-photon microscopy with 3D-structured illumination.
- Slides (PDF)pdf28.06.2019
For applications in the field of XR, devices based on light guiding are to combine the virtual image with the light impinging from the real-world environment.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf30.10.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf18.02.2020
We demonstrate several classical physical optics effects: diffraction from slits, Talbot effect, Arago spot, Michelson/Mach-Zehnder/Young’s interferometers ...
- Abstract (PDF)pdf14.07.2020
We emphasize on highly efficient solutions to Maxwell’s equations, based on 1) the paradigm shift of switching the main modeling domain from space to spatial frequency domain; 2) innovative Fourier transform concepts that minimize the field sampling parameters. We will present simulations of several typical modern laser systems based on fast physical optics modeling.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Traditionally, ray- and physical-optics approaches are separated in optical modeling and design. We present a unified modeling theory which is fully based on physical optics, but which also enables a seamless transition into the geometrical branch of physical optics where mathematically justified. This theory is applied to the modeling and design of light shaping systems. We show how established design techniques can be understood as particular cases of the unified theory. The unified concept provides flexible design approaches which combine the best of known techniques and even go beyond them.
In this work, the field tracing tech niques for modeling light-shaping systems are presented, which reveals the optical element resulted from those geometric-base algorithm is not always accurate enough for the design task.
- Announcement (PDF)pdf13.08.2020
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2020
After a brief introduction of the fast physical optics technology we demonstrate various examples from different fields of application.
- Slides (PDF)pdf28.06.2019
We present a physical-optics-based approach to deal with the modeling of the whole diffractive-/metasurfaces.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf14.07.2020
A physical-optics-based approach to deal with the modeling of metasurfaces, with a locally extended rigorous analysis of several unit cells...
- Abstract (PDF)pdf30.10.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf18.02.2020
Diffractive and meta-lenses in optical systems play an important role in various applications like imaging systems, laser-beam shaping, bio/medical-optics, etc.
- Slides (PDF)pdf19.08.2019
We discuss the implications of the optical design of diffractive and refractive freeform surfaces in non-paraxial regions of the fields.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
In non-sequential simulations with ray and field tracing the user can control which light-propagation paths are to be considered.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Confocal microscopy has good imaging performance. We perform the physical-optics modeling of the real condenser lens system with full vectorial effects.
- Slides (PDF)pdf19.08.2019
We present the theoretical derivation and the numerical implementation. We illustrate its potential with examples.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
Physical-optics system modeling can be performed by connecting different field solvers, which are selected to efficiently solve Maxwell’s equations...
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
In this talk the modeling of systems for femtosecond pulses is presented, including pulse compression and stretching by grating pairs...
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
VirtualLab Fusion supports light shapping by freeform surfaces, diffractive beam splitters and general arrays of micro-optical components...
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
In this work, we start with the optimization of coupling gratings for a single incident direction and analyze the effect when such optimized gratings are used in different situations.
- Slides (PDF)pdf10.04.2019
Lightguide structures are widely applied in different applications, and, nowadays, the are drawing special interest in the field of near-to-eye display systems. Such systems are typically realized with either planar or curved lightguides together with gratings for coupling light out of or into the lightguides.
- Slides (PDF)pdf28.06.2019
Though ray tracing gives insight also in the case of lightguides. VirtualLab Fusion we provide such a modeling approach for AR/MR, FOV.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf30.10.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf18.02.2020
Based on interferometers, optical setups play an important role in modern optical metrology for different applications and various tasks.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.07.2019
We obtain a physical-optics solution which reveals, in an isolated manner, all the effects which we know must appear, and dispel the geometrical-phyisical optics dichotomy in our understanding of the Gouy phase.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
In this work, we investigate the coupling of electromagnetic fields into fiber and similar micro-optics structures, and especially, we perform tolerance analysis of given system with respect to shift and tilt of the fiber and micro-optical sensors.
- Poster (PDF)pdf28.06.2019
In modern optics, a huge variety of components with specific purposes made from different materials are employed. Birefringent materials are often used for manipulating light in difference aspects. Especially, by analysis in the spatial frequency domain, the effect from birefringence can be clearly revealed and, based on that, we develop a fast numerical algorithm to model light propagation through such components.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
A diffractive or meta-lens can be modeled as local structures (e.g. local gratings) on a base interface. The rigorous Fourier modal method (FMM) is applied for the local micro-/nanostructures; then the phase modulations at each position can be collected to model the lens function.
- Slides (PDF)pdf21.02.2019
Interferometer-based setups play an very important role in modern optical metrology for different tasks.
- Slides (PDF)pdf28.06.2019
With many modern applications requiring or benefitting from high-packaged energy delivered in a very short amount of time, ultrashort pulse sources acquire more and more interest. To focus on such kind of source, proper handling of the spatial and temporal distribution, as well as a possible coupling amongst the two domains is required.
- Announcement (PDF)pdf21.04.2021
Modern interferometer-based optical-metrology technologies play an important role in many applications, and often consist of multi-disciplinary components. We present a physical-optics- based simulation approach.
- Slides (PDF)pdf22.02.2019
Optical fibers are often used to detect and monitor light signals in modern optical Metrology systems. The use of optical fibers helps to reduce the size of the optical system and makes the facilitate interconnection between systems.
- Slides (PDF)pdf19.08.2019
Optical fibers are widely used for collecting and monitoring light signals in modern optical metrology systems. The use of fibers helps reduce the size of optical system and makes the interconnection between systems convenient.
- Slides (PDF)pdf19.08.2019
We show how techniques are related to each other and how they can be used to improve maximum efficiency for non-paraxial illumination by laser beams.
- Slides (PDF)pdf21.02.2019
The Fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm constitutes the backbone for fast physical optics modelling. In this talk we present the theory of the semi-analytical FFT alongside several examples to demonstrate the great potential of this approach.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
We discuss the use of miniaturized freeform surfaces in regular and randomized arrays. Furthermore, the inclusion of diffraction at the edges of the array cells is discussed and demonstrated at the example of a microlens array.
The modeling of the pulses starts with a temporal Fourier transform which convert the temporal signal into correlated spectral modes, so that the material dispersion effects can be included. Each spectral mode is polarized and therefore vectorial electromagnetic field information can be considered.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf30.10.2019
Numerous parameters must be considered in order to design a functional AR/MR device which provides sufficient image quality and optical performance.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
Gratings for coupling light into or out of lightguides for near-to-eye display systems are optimized regarding the angular dependency of the field of view.
- Abstract (PDF)pdf04.09.2019
- Slides (PDF)pdf25.09.2019
In this talk we will discuss the modeling and design of laser systems along applications like beam delivery and scanning, speaking also about the peculiarities of including gratings, etalons, graded-index media and crystals in said systems.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
The well-established ray-tracing concept of Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function, used traditionally to model the scattering of rays at micro-structured surfaces, serves as the inspiration for what we have called “bidirectional”, or B, operators: a physical-optics generalization that refers not only to the modelling of surface scattering, but of any component in an optical system.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Geometrical and physical optics tend to be presented as completely separate from each other, the links between the two tenuously acknowledged at best. However, when they are viewed for what they are it is evident that not only are they not separate, but that in fact the two types of behaviours very often coexist within the same system.
- Slides (PDF)pdf01.08.2018
Technology Whitepapers
VirtualLab Fusion enables fast physical-optics system modeling by connecting different solvers instead of applying one universal solver to the entire system.
- White Paper - Connecting Solvers by Master Channelspdf09.08.2021
The numerical accuracy of physical optics simulations is controlled by the numerical parameters of each solver, the sampling accuracy of the fields...
- White Paper - Field Tracing Accuracy Settingspdf05.08.2021
The FMM/RCWA solver consists of an eigenmode solver for each periodically modulated layer and an S-matrix, in the spatial frequency domain (k domain).
- White Paper - FMM / RCWA [S-Matrix]pdf08.06.2020
VirtualLab Fusion provides fast physical-optics modeling by connecting different field solvers.
- White Paper - Fourier Transformspdf05.08.2021
The Fresnel matrix solver consists of an eigenmode solver for the homogeneous media on both sides of the interface and matching of the boundary conditions.
- White Paper - Fresnel Matrixpdf08.06.2020
In ray tracing for lens systems the rays are originated in the object points and the specific selection is often done with respect to the stop...
- White Paper - Generation of Rays for Ray Tracingpdf05.08.2021
We have started to enable the optional decomposition of a master region into subregions in x-domain which form the entrance to subchannels.
- White Paper - High Flexibility by Sub-Channelspdf09.08.2021
The idealized grating function works without any information about the actual shape of the grating structure.
- White Paper - Idealized Grating Functionspdf08.06.2020
The idealized lens functions works without the knowledge about actual lens surfaces and material.
- White Paper - Idealized Lens Functionspdf26.08.2020
The layer matrix solver consists of an eigenmode solver for each homogeneous layer and an S-matrix for matching the boundary conditions at all the interfaces.
- White Paper - Layer Matrix [S-Matrix]pdf08.06.2020
The LLGA solver assumes local plane wave and local linear grating interactions (x domain), using either the FMM/RCWA or TEA for the grating analysis.
A LPIA solver works in the spatial domain with an approximate local boundary condition, that assumes a local plane wave interaction with local plane interface.
The RK-BPM solves the electromagnetic field propagation problem in a GRIN medium, by solving two ordinary differential equations simultaneously.
- White Paper - Runge-Kutta Beam Propagation Methodpdf08.06.2020
We, the developers of VirtualLab Fusion, do not understand ray and physical optics as two disjunct modeling techniques between which the user must select...
Physical-optics modeling in VirtualLab Fusion is initialized by the light path finder algorithm, which searches for all possible light paths through the system...
One key technique for fast physical-optics modeling with VirtualLab Fusion is the channel concept which enables connecting solvers.
- White Paper - Truncation of Fields at Boundariespdf09.08.2021
Use Cases
Coated slanted gratings can be configured easily within VirtualLab. This use case explains the available options for the customization of slanted gratings.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf07.03.2019
By placing a rotated rectangular aperture behind input fields with different sizes, the PSF and MTF in the focal plane are investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
An imaging system consisting of a collimation objective and human eye is modeled, and by changing the illumination conditions, the cases with fully and partially illuminated apertures are investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf25.09.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip25.09.2018
When a linearly polarized Gaussian beam is focused by a high-NA aspheric lens, the PSF in focal plane shows asymmetry due to vectorial effects.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case explains the configuration and usage of the Microlens Array component in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf14.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip14.09.2021
This use case explains the configuration and usage of the Microlens Array component in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.09.2021
Within VirtualLab Fusion, we demonstrate the analyze afocal systems for the generation of laser guide stars, and further optimize the system to control the size of the artificial stars.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We demonstrate how to analyze the polarization-dependent property of binary gratings rigorously, also to optimize the binary structures to obtain polarization-independent high diffraction efficiency.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.03.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.03.2022
An Offner system that consists of two concentric spherical mirrors is built up and its imaging property is investigated by using the non-sequential field tracing in VirtualLab.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Fourier modal method (FMM) can be used to analyze grating efficiencies rigorously in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf01.04.2019
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip01.04.2019
Using the rigorous FMM / RCWA, we simulate CMOS sensor with pixel size equal to or below 2µm, and especially, the effectiveness of the microlenses is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
For a folded waveguide-based imaging system, the multiple apertures effect, including in- and outcoupling gratings and pupil aperture, is shown to affect the PSF and MTF on image plane.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
To evaluate the image quality of a near-to-eye display system, it is important to include the influence from the waveguide structure. In this example, both planar and curved waveguide are investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the PSF is distorted due to the aberration caused by off-axis imaging.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the PSFs have different shapes when the orientation of the dipole source changes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Different slanted grating geometries are selected from literature, with varying slant angle, fill factor, and modulation depth, and the diffraction efficiencies are calculated with the Fourier modal method (FMM).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.11.2021
High-NA objective lenses are widely used in optical lithography, microscopy, etc. Consideration of the vectorial nature of light in the simulation of the focusing is of great importance.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We construct an angular-filtering volume grating and apply it in a system to suppress the undesired higher diffraction orders from a beam splitting DOE.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip24.06.2022
A very typical detector within VirtualLab Fusion is the camera detector which generates a chromatic fields set. This use case demonstrates how easy it is to convert a set of chromatic fields sets into an animation from a parameter run.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab, the variation of parameters in an optical system is freely customizable using the programmable mode of the Parameter Run feature. We use a specific example to illustrate the application of this programmable mode.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf13.07.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip13.07.2018
VirtualLab Fusion provides a unified free-space propagation concept in the k-domain, together with an automatic selection of appropriate Fourier transform techniques.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf18.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip18.02.2022
VirtualLab Fusion provides a unified free-space propagation concept in the k-domain, together with automatic selection of proper Fourier transform techniques.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.02.2022
In this example, we demonstrate how the Parameter Coupling feature of VirtualLab Fusion can be applied in order to automatize the positioning of a detector with respect to other parameters in the system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf16.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip16.04.2021
We use a HOE that combines the lens and axicon function to generate Bessel beam from the output of a single-mode fiber.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip03.02.2022
Have a look at the simulation of birefringence in VirtualLab Fusion and investigates the dependence of the effect on input polarization and crystal thickness.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf12.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip12.08.2021
With the flexible channel configuration in VirtualLab Fusion, one can easily control the response of any surface and/or region, so to realize the desired modeling schemes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Non-sequential field tracing is done with two steps in VirtualLab Fusion. Firstly, according to an adjustable accuracy factor, the light path through the system is detected. This light path finding can be controlled by the corresponding accuracy factor.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
By taking a fluorescent microscope as example, we analyze the chromatic effect for the high-NA objective lens, at the emitting wavelength and illumination wavelength, respectively.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Beam apodization plays a key role in the design of high-energy lasers and beam-delivery systems. Thanks to VirtualLab Fusion’s highly customizable environment, a serrated beam apodizer is modeled using a plug-in transmission function.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf10.05.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip10.05.2021
It is demonstrated that the fringe contrast in a Michelson interferometer with a light source of certain bandwidth varies when the optical path difference changes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
High-power laser diodes often exhibit asymmetric divergence and astigmatism. Collimation of such a laser diode is investigated with both ray tracing and field tracing.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We show how to build up a shearing interferometer for the testing of laser beam collimation. By changing the collimation lens system, we observe the change in the interference fringes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
For the task of coupling light into a single-mode fiber, two commercially available lenses are selected, and their performance are evaluated by using the overlap integral.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A complex lightguide system, including a 2D-periodic exit pupil expander in combination with slanted gratings in the outcoupler, is presented. PSF and MTF as well as lateral uniformity are evaluated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf03.12.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip03.12.2021
Both Fourier domains (space and spatial frequency) can be used as the domain of implementation for solvers in VirtualLab Fusion. We discuss the implications and analyze the plane surface as a special case.
- Use Case PDFpdf04.05.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.05.2021
Compound refractive lenses, which consists of tens or hundreds of individual cylindrical lenses, are used to focus x-ray fields one- and two-dimensionally.
- Use Casepdf07.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, grating structures are configured in a “stack”, which can be constructed with either a sequence of interfaces or special media, depending on the geometry of the grating. In this use case the configuration of grating structures based on interfaces is explained.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In the VirtualLab’s Grating Software Package grating structures can be configured by using a stack. In this use case the configuration of grating structures based on media is explained.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, complex 3D grating structures can be configured using stacks. This use case is focused on the configuration of grating structures which exhibit two-dimensional periodicity.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The conical refraction from a KGd crystal is demonstrated with the fast-physical-optics simulation technology in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.04.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.04.2022
VirtualLab Fusion allows for the specification of a graded-index lens in a very user-friendly way. In addition, such index-modulated lenses can be analyzed by ray tracing as well as by field tracing.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Light guides with coupling gratings can be set up in VirtualLab Fusion using the Light Guide component and its flexible region definition.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf21.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip21.10.2021
This Use Case shows how to construct a pyramid-like surface by using the programmable surface in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Parameter Coupling feature of VirtualLab Fusion can be used to link the values of different parameters in an optical setup, which allows the user to establish complex relationships between these parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf15.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip15.04.2021
In this use case, VirtualLab Fusion’s visualization capability is illustrated. All users with various backgrounds may configure visualization setting on the GUI level.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf09.04.2021
We demonstrate how to use MATLAB to access the field solvers in VirtualLab Fusion, and use them together with MATLAB functions for analysis and optimization.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf03.06.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip03.06.2021
We demonstrate how to use Python to access the field solvers in VirtualLab Fusion, and use them together with Python functions for further analysis.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf03.06.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip03.06.2021
VirtualLab provides multiple tools to implement your custom sources, components, detectors etc. For documentation of such customized object the snippet help can be used.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
We present a customized detector which calculates the grating diffraction efficiencies over a user-defined incident-angle range, and also delivers the mean value and contrast of the efficiencies.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A module in VirtualLab Fusion is generated to calculate the range of the period of a coupling grating, so as to fulfill the guiding condition of lightguides.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A simulation of Czerny-Turner setup based on physical-optics, which comes with parabolic mirrors and blazed grating, is presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf06.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip06.07.2021
Data is often stored in the form of .txt, .csv, .bmp etc. VirtualLab Fusion supports to import these data forms and store them into Data Array. VirtualLab Fusion supports also to save and load the settings of the import for multiple import sessions.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A flash LiDAR system, consisting of array of sources, collimation lens system, and diffractive grating, is constructed and its working principle is shown in both the spatial and the spatial frequency domains.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We build up an imaging system, use metal-grid gratings as the test objects, and demonstrate Abbe’s theory on image formation with VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document, we investigate the interference of Yong’s double-slit setup with an extended, partially coherent source, and demonstrated the van Cittert-Zernike theorem.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.08.2021
We show how to import an intraocular diffractive lens design from Zemax OpticStudio® into VirtualLab Fusion, model it with the actual binary structure, and optimize the structure height for better performance.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Fourier Modal Method (FMM) is applied for the rigorous evaluation of a non-paraxial diffractive beam splitter, which was initially designed using the Iterative Fourier Transform Algorithm (IFTA) and Thin Element Approximation (TEA).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.05.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.05.2022
We design a 2D metagrating for beam splitting. The metagrating is constructed, analyzed, and further optimized in VirtualLab Fusion, especially in terms of the uniformity of the diffraction efficiencies.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Two diffractive diffusers, with continuous or discrete phase, for generating a LightTrans trademark are designed, and their performance is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Designing of high-NA dot-projection system is of great practical use. In this example, a single phase plate for generating a 24,000 dots random pattern is designed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the user-friendly design tools in VirtualLab, a refractive beam shaper for shaping a fundamental Gaussian beam into top-hat profile is designed and analyzed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The iterative Fourier transform algorithm (IFTA) in VirtualLab Fusion enables customized beam splitters design with high efficiency and flexibility.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A physical-optics-based simulation of Czerny-Turner setup, which consists of parabolic mirrors and blazed grating, is presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the energy densities at the tube lens and at the image plane are influenced by the diffraction of the aperture in the microscopy system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case demonstrates how the diffracted pattern changes when the reflection-type beam splitter (designed for normal incidence) rotates.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the advanced propagation technology in VirtualLab Fusion, we calculate the diffraction patterns for apertures with different shapes and study the property of diffraction.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We construct a passive parity-time grating and analyze its diffraction property with respect to selected grating parameters and the polarization of light.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the double helix PSF rotates when there is only a small defocus of the object point.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We demonstrate the effect of different mirror coatings on the characteristics of ultrashort pulses like peak value and pulse duration.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip24.01.2022
With the Electromagnetic Field Detector the user can access the fully vectorial electromagnetic field at any given plane in the system. We explain here how to handle this detector.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the perfectly matched layers (PMLs) technique, the interaction between a focused Gaussian beam and nanocylinders with varying diameters is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.04.2019
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.04.2019
An optical metrology system with a silica spaced etalon is set up to measure the sodium D lines in VirtualLab Fusion, and the influence from the coating reflectance is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This document shows a programmable module that can export any kind of Harmonic Fields Set into ASCII files.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion can export smooth and quantized interfaces, as well as mirror/prism/grating cells arrays into various file formats, e.g., STL and GDSII file format.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion can export smooth surfaces into various file formats, e.g., STL and other customized formats.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.06.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.06.2021
VirtualLab Fusion can export quantized HOE structure into various file formats. It is possible to export the files by a pixelized or polygon approach.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.06.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.06.2021
In this document, the export of data from a Parameter Run document is shown. A C# module is used to save the energy density distribution and numerical results to the desired file path on the hard disk.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf07.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.06.2022
Variation of parameters of an optical system can be done by using VirtualLab Fusion’s parameter run. In this use case the export of the provided results of the parameter run is explained.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion supports the export of optical components specified in the system into various CAD formats. This includes for example the export of lenses, prisms, mirror systems and other components into STL and in IGES format.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The propagation of a 5-fs pulse through seawater is studied in VirtualLab Fusion. The broadening of the pulse and the change in its temporal profile due to dispersion of the material are shown.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this use case, we reproduce the experiments of Zheng et al. [Opt. Express 24 (2016)] to explore the atmospheric turbulence effects on the coupling efficiency between the free-space optical beam and few-mode fibers.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf15.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip15.07.2021
A Fizeau interferometer is set up with the help of non-sequential field tracing technology, and the interference fringes from several different test surfaces are shown.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In optical modeling, a finite region is often used as the area for further operation. VirtualLab Fusion supports to generate regions in different manners with great ease.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case walks you through the flexible region configuration in VirtualLab Fusion, which allows the user to define variously shaped regions for e.g. light-guide applications.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf30.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip30.11.2021
Several typical wavefront aberrations are selected as examples, and their corresponding focal spots are investigated with varying parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A laser diode with asymmetric divergence and astigmatism is first collimated and then focused. Evolution of the field in the focal region is investigated in detail.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We demonstrate in VirtualLab Fusion the focusing of electromagnetic fields with properly designed apertures.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case shows the focusing of an Ince-Gaussian mode through a GRIN medium representing a thermal lens.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf09.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip09.09.2021
It is demonstrated that the focusing of cylindrical vector beams. The vectorial effects of radially and azimuthally beams are demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The focusing process of a 10 fs pulse by using a high-NA parabolic mirror is modeled in VirtualLab Fusion, and both the spatial and temporal behaviors are investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the focusing of high order Gaussian-Laguerre beam generates donut-shaped PSF. The size of donut-shaped PSF can be adjusted by different high orders.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Footprint and Grating Analysis tool allows the optical designer to determine how the light will interact with the various grating regions of the lightguide.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf17.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip17.02.2022
As one of the most fundamental technologies in VirtualLab Fusion, Fourier transforms connect the space and spatial frequency domains. We discuss the Fourier transforms settings at different examples and show the consequences.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With a low-coherence Xenon lamp source, a Michelson interferometer is built up for precise scanning of the surface profile of a given specimen.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case shows the variation of the focal length of the thermal lens, as well as the focus beam diameter when the input power changes [W. Koechner, Appl. Opt. 9, 2548–2553 (1970)]. This example is published in [H. Zhong, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 35].
- Use Case PDFpdf29.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip29.04.2021
We demonstrate the generation of optical beams carrying OAM by using spiral phase plates with different parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With a Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup with two rotatable polarizers, we demonstrate the generation of spatially varying polarization.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Following the idea of T. Wang et al., Appl. Phys. B 122:231 (2016), this use case demonstrates a Sagnac-interferometer scheme to generate vector beam.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this use case, smoothly varied grating parameters are introduced to lightguides for AR/MR applications, by using VirtualLab’s Footprint and Grating Analysis tool. Further, detailed results of the polarization-dependent diffraction efficiencies of the configured grating structures are provided.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf30.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip30.11.2021
A workflow is presented for how to optimize a grating structure regarding a specified merit function using VirtualLab Fusion and the optimization software optiSLang.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, the Grating Order Analyzer can be used for convenient grating diffraction analysis, with results presented in various ways.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.11.2021
We set up a pulse stretcher consisting of two diffractive gratings and investigate the pulse broadening effect induced by the interaction of the pulse with the gratings.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) mirrors focus the grazing-incident X-ray field into a nanometer-scale spot. In this use case the modeling and evaluation of such KB mirror system is demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf07.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.10.2021
In this use case we model the propagation of an X-ray field through a Hartmann wavefront sensor composed by an array of pinholes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf30.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip30.09.2021
A Herrig Schiefspiegler telescope with two mirrors, but with four reflections in a double-pass configuration, is modeled with the non-sequential ray and field tracing techniques in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case demonstrates the definition and usage of user-defined merit functions for the evaluation and optimization of order efficiencies of a diffractive high-NA beam splitter.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.05.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.05.2022
In high-NA focusing situations, e.g. with parabolic mirror, it is demonstrated that input fields with different polarizations leads to different focal spots.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.07.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.07.2018
A two diffractive beam splitter system for high-NA pattern generation is designed with IFTA, and the system performance is investigated, especially with the non-paraxial splitter analyzed by using FMM.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
A holographic volume grating is analyzed by using the Fourier modal method. Both the spectral and angular properties are presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip24.06.2022
Using laterally shifted modes is one possible strategy to mimic partial spatial coherence. In this tutorial we show you how to manipulate the positions of the source modes via programming.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this feature Use Case different options for the customization of detector results in VirtualLab Fusion are demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.03.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.03.2022
This use case demonstrates how to import a previously designed real grating structure into the lightguide component and explains the role and handling of lookup tables.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.11.2021
With the panel-type source in VirtualLab it is possible to model a pixelated display, with the pixel pitch and the number of pixels as free parameters for the user to fix.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf27.08.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip27.08.2018
The Scanning Source in VirtualLab Fusion defines a multi-mode source that generates a set of truncated plane waves radiating into several pre-defined directions, which is of help for e.g. the modeling and evaluation of laser scanning systems.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf18.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip18.06.2022
In this tutorial we explain the basics of working with the C# Module: one of the most flexible, most advanced programmable items in VirtualLab Fusion!
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Programmable Component is one of the most versatile programmable elements in VirtualLab. Follow this tutorial for instructions on a first contact with this feature!
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this tutorial we show how to work with the Programmable Detector, one of the most versatile customizable elements in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document we explain how to work with the Programmable Function, using the example of a cylindrical lens.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document we explain how to work with the Programmable Interface, using the example of a simple spherical surface.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document we show you how to work with the Programmable Source: a means to define the spatial dependence of a custom basic source mode. We use the Gaussian as an example.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf17.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP) zip17.09.2021
In this detailed tutorial we explain how to create your own custom materials (refractive index with respect to wavelength) in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this detailed tutorial we explain how to create your own custom media (dependence of refractive index on position) in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf05.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip05.10.2021
Discover how to create your own custom spectra via programming in VirtualLab Fusion with this in-depth tutorial on the topic, rounded up with a basic hands-on example.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A high-NA microscope for imaging of sub-wavelength grating is build up, and the influences from illumination with linear, radial, and azimuthal polarizations is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Chromatic fields set are standard documents to show a light distribution in VirtualLab Fusion. This use case demonstrates the options for import and export chromatic fields sets.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion can import the beam files from Zemax OpticStudio®, convert it into electromagnetic field information automatically, and support further propagation of the imported field.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The import of a bitmap file, which contains height data of a microstructure is demonstrated. This example provides a step-by-step explanation of the required workflow in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this use case, we illustrate the workflow of how to import complex material data into VirtualLab Fusion’s material catalog.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion allows the import of optical systems with the full 3D position information and glasses from Zemax OpticStudio®, and provides field tracing for further investigation of the imported system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case illustrates how to import the measured extraterrestrial sunlight spectrum, and how to subsequently employ said spectrum in an optical system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf14.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip14.01.2022
Ince-Gaussian Modes constitute an additional solution for the paraxial wave equation. This use case shows how to set up this kind of modes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf27.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip27.08.2021
It is demonstrated that the positions of the stop in a lens system have influence on the PSF, especially in the case of inclined illumination.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf09.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip09.09.2021
VirtualLab Fusion provides three local and one global optimization algorithm. This use case introduces the associated Parametric Optimization document with its options and settings.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf10.12.2021
In this use case, we use a specified a step-index or graded-index fiber as source to generate a couple of propagation modes, and evaluate the aberration effects after propagation through an optical system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf15.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip15.07.2021
In this use case we demonstrate the change in the effective focal length caused by thermal lensing on a lens. The deformation of the geometry and the steady-state temperature distribution are calculated using Ansys Mechanical and are then imported into VirtualLab.
- Use Case PDFpdf29.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip29.04.2021
The ghost image effect in a collimation lens system is investigated, by checking the reflections between uncoated surfaces with the non-sequential tracing technique.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We use the Debye-Wolf integral calculator in VirtualLab Fusion for vectorial focal field investigation with different parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
For a diffractive beam shaper used together with focusing lens, the influence from lens aberrations on the system performance is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VitualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion enables the detailed analysis of grating structures, with possible changes in the polarization state of the diffracted orders taken into consideration.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf28.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.02.2022
This use case investigates light behind a microlens array. Effects in the near field, focal plane and far field are shown and discussed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf10.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip10.11.2021
This use case explains the physical concepts employed in the k-Layout Visualization tool and demonstrates its usage.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf05.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip05.11.2021
A spatial filtering system with a pinhole is modeled in VirtualLab Fusion. We demonstrate how the opening of the pinhole influences the output beam quality.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A Michelson interferometer is set up with the help of non-sequential tracing technology in VirtualLab Fusion, and the interference fringes in different configurations are demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Layout Design tool allows to design a custom “Hololens 1”-like augmented or mixed reality system according to the desired specifications.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf05.11.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion you can export a summary of all system parameters in the light path diagram into an XML File. This use case shows how to export the parameters and how to visualize the parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf13.07.2018
As one important issue for near-eye display (NED) design, the propagation of light through waveguide structure with tailored in- and outcoupling gratings can be easily modeled with the help of region and channel concept in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
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In this use case we model a lightguide system that uses 2D-periodic grating structures (diamond-shaped), according to the approach from Patent WO2018/178626 (by Wave Optics LTD).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf20.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip20.01.2022
This use case shows a lightguide system with a so-called “butterfly pupil expansion”, based on patent US9791703B1 by Microsoft.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf17.12.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip17.12.2021
We offer here an optical setup configured according to Littrow, which furthermore, via some programming, maintains those optimal positions even under a change of wavelength or grating period.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.03.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.03.2022
The Fiber Mode Calculator can be used to calculate linearly polarized (LP) propagation modes in a step-index fiber with a single core or a graded-index fiber with an infinite parabolic profile.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf15.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip15.07.2021
We build up a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in VirtualLab Fusion and demonstrate how the tilt and shift of component affect the interference fringe.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We build an optical setup, with two freeform optical elements, to transform orbital angular momentum (OAM) to linear one, for its measurement.
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Based on selected examples, we show how to construct and configure metagrating structure and materials in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the contrast of the structured illumination pattern is influenced by the polarization of the incident beam.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the Mie solution for an electromagnetic plane wave in VirtualLab Fusion, we investigate the scattering effect of spherical particles with different radii and made of different materials.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case shows how to realize the shifted elementary-field method, reported by Tervo et al. [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 27 (9), 2010], to get an accurate model of an extended source.
- Use Case PDFpdf22.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.04.2021
We design and construct a blazed metagrating in VirtualLab Fusion using square nano pillars, analyze its polarization-dependent diffraction efficiency, and further optimize it.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case shows a physical optics simulation of a Herriott cell for gas spectroscopy, including a demonstration with CO2.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf22.04.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.04.2022
This use case demonstrates the modeling of a device of a simple “HoloLens 1”-type layout with a Light Guide component capable of guiding light with a 32° × 18° FoV.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf22.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.10.2021
A hybrid eyepiece with a diffractive lens surface for correcting chromatic aberration is imported from Zemax OpticStudio® and analyzed further in VirtualLab Fusion, notably including the modeling of the actual diffractive surface structures with different quantization schemes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This document demonstrates how a VCSEL array source can be modeled in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.08.2021
An image projection system is set up using the panel-type source. The performance of the system is evaluated by observing the spot grid in both the spatial and angular domains.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.09.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.09.2018
We model the generation of Bessel beams with axicon with round tip and investigate how the round tip may influence the Bessel beam evolution.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We set up optical etalons with both planar and curved surfaces. With the nonsequential field tracing technique, the differences in the interference fringes are investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf06.05.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip07.05.2022
The Foucault knife-edge test is a well-known historical experiment to determine the characteristics of a given concave-shaped mirror. In this use case we model this test for a spherical and a parabolic mirror.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf31.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip31.01.2022
In VirtualLab Fusion, we perform a fully physical-optics modeling of a Graded-index lens system, which includes the polarization crosstalk effects.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A fast approach for light propagation through a GRIN medium, which includes the polarization crosstalk effect, is implemented, and its validity and advantages are shown in comparison with a rigorous solver.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the help of typical examples, we explain how to model grating within system and discuss topics like alignment of gratings, grating order selection, and angular response setting.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The imaging properties of microlens array with different lens shapes are investigated. Change of the focal spots with respect to aberration of input field is demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We demonstrate the modeling of the Talbot effect, a well-known near-field diffraction effect from periodic structures such as gratings.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf19.03.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip19.03.2022
We illustrate the modeling of interference and vignetting effects at a total internal reflection (TIR) prism. Dependent on the characteristics of the impinging light, these effects are introduced by the narrow gap between both prism parts.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This document demonstrates how to achieve the desired intensity distribution of a specific VCSEL source via parametric optimization of two uncorrelated Gaussian modes with the help of the Multiple Light Source.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.08.2021
A module is programmed to measure the FFT execution time for a quadratic field with different numbers of sampling points, in float and/or double precision.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
By using the non-sequential tracing technique in VirtualLab, the ray tracing analysis of a glass plate is performed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
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A Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a coherent laser source is build up in VirtualLab Fusion and analyzed by using the non-sequential Field Tracing. The different behavior of an idealized and a prism beam splitter is investigated, and the complementary interference pattern caused by the relative phase shift is demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip01.10.2021
Gouy phase shift, which is a p phase term, can be observed by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The interference along optical axis is constructive before focus, while destructive behind focus.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The vital role of diffraction in the Poisson-spot experiment provided proof of the wavelike nature of light. We perform here a simulation of this key experiment.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
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This document illustrates the generation of vortex array laser beams using an Ince-Gaussian source with a Dove prism-embedded unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer, as first proposed by Chu et al. [Opt. Express 16, 19934-19949 (2008)].
- Use Case (PDF)pdf09.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip09.09.2021
A complete wafer inspection system including high-NA focusing effect and light interaction with microstructures is modeled, and the formation of image is demonstrated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case introduces the basic configuration of an anisotropic medium.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf29.07.2021
In this example, we select one commercially available lens and show how to find the optimal working distance to obtain maximum fiber coupling efficiency by using field tracing.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the rigorous Fourier modal method (FMM) in VirtualLab Fusion and the evolutionary algorithm in optiSLang, we demonstrate the optimization of a binary grating for waveguide coupling for the desired field of view (FOV).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We demonstrate the design workflow for optimizing a rectangular grating for one specific incidence direction to obtain maximum efficiency for a specific diffraction order.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case demonstrates how to optimize a lightguide with continuously varying fill factor of the gratings in the EPE and outcoupler regions to achieve adequate lateral uniformity in the eyebox.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf10.12.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip10.12.2021
We optimize a slanted grating for waveguide coupling over desired field of view (FOV), by using VirtualLab Fusion and optiSLang in combination.
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- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
To ensure uniform multiple waveguide output channels, the outcoupling gratings are optimized, with their efficiencies calculated by the rigorous Fourier modal method.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this use case we will explain the advanced orientation setting for gratings within a grating region. Currently grating regions are only available within the waveguide toolbox.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
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With the Fourier modal method (FMM) as the kernel on which parametric optimization is then applied, a slanted grating is designed to achieve high diffraction efficiency for coupling light into waveguides. Fabrication tolerances including rounded edges are analyzed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, users can easily construct a two-mirror laser resonator, and use parametric optimization to design this resonator to generate a desired output mode.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the parametric optimization in VirtualLab Fusion, the design of a fiber coupling lens with conical surface, for efficient coupling into a single-mode fiber is presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A scanning system consisting a dual-axis galvanometer and an aspherial focusing lens is modeled, with the rotation of the mirrors taken into simulation as in the practical case.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the scanning source in VirtualLab Fusion, we analyze the performance of an F-Theta lens by measuring the deviation of the focal spot position and the spot size for different scan angles.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf18.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip18.06.2022
The account different powerful computer system it, performance based parameters are introduced and explained.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.06.2021
This document illustrates the usage of the global options for personalization of the view settings of the VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.06.2021
With the flexible Fourier transform settings in VirtualLab Fusion, we model the diffraction effect from surface apertures and pinholes in a low-Fresnel-number system.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This feature use case demonstrates the capabilities of the Polarization Analyzer for the analysis and optimization of grating structures.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf28.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.02.2022
The conversion of polarization of linearly polarized light in a calcite crystal is demonstrated in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.08.2021
We construct a binary grating with sub-wavelength structure following the principle of form birefringence and demonstrate its polarization-dependent properties.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
To model polarizer used in non-paraxial cases, an idealized model is implemented in VirtualLab, and the effect of a polarizer in the focal region is presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, users can select which information of position and orientation to be shown. This use case shows how to set up the position and orientation information display in a Light Path View.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
We demonstrate the Goos-Hänchen shift for a dielectric slab with weak absorption, by measuring the lateral shift of the reflected beam with respect to the incidence angle.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this programming example, we present some functions which were used in the Classic Field Tracing engine to propagate an electromagnetic field that was represented in an equidistantly sampled form.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We show how to use a Programmable Grating Analyzer to access the grating diffraction information, to display it, and to use it for further analysisor optimization.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This example shows how to use Programmable Pulse Spectrum to generate a chirped Gaussian pulse, with the pulse specification given in time domain.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Based on the fully vectorial electromagnetic field information, a Programmable Detector is done for the calculation of the degree of coherence.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Based on the full field information, and together with the Programmable Detector, several typically used merit functions in diffractive optics are realized in this example.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This example illustrate the access on field values in a Programmable Detector via source code, and it calculates the sum of all squared amplitudes on the optical axis including all field components.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A Programmable Detector is constructed for saving a light distribution (harmonic fields set) to the desired file path on the hard disk.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this programming example we illustrate how to code a transmission function that imitates an opaque screen punctured by two round holes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
An example snippet is presented for defining a double slit function, with customizable slit width and distance in between.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This example shows how to realize an array of micro-lenses on a rectangular grid by using the Programmable Interface in VirtualLab.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Gauging the accuracy of a given result is fundamental in science and engineering. In this use case we show you how to program a module to compute the standard deviation between two fields.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Gauging the accuracy of a given result is fundamental in science and engineering. In this use case we show you how to program a module to compute the standard deviation between two fields.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This programmable module is designed to be applied to the sharp result of a designed structure, and it will round off the edges according to user-specified values.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document you can find an example for the Programmable Function which defines an arbitrary number of equidistant slits with an arbitrary width and distance.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf25.01.2019
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A convex-plano single lens is analyzed by scanning over the radius of curvature and its thickness with the Programmable Parameter Run in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document you can find an example for the Programmable Interface. Although the sinusoidal surface is provided ready-made in the catalog, we show you how to code it for illustration purposes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this example, the generation of sinusoidal volume grating is demonstrated, with the grating period and the refractive index modulation as user-defined parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This document shows a customizable spectral band filter in a system with a Gaussian pulse with a homogeneous spectrum.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A truncated cone structure is generated using the Programmable Interface, with its specifications (height, top/base diameter) as user-defined parameters.
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- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Using the Programmable Interface in VirtualLab Fusion, an anamorphic surface is programmed and especially with the surface gradient analytically given.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this programming example we illustrate how to use the Programmable Function in VirtualLab to create a custom idealised component that performs like an axicon.
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- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This example shows how to use a customized C# module to execute an IFTA design in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
See how to create a radially and an azimuthally polarized source, experimenting in the process with the programming of light sources and the potential of the Combined Light Source feature.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We investigate the relationship between the broadening of an ultrashort pulse and the dispersion of given materials that the pulse propagates through.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf22.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.01.2022
We investigate the effects of subjecting an ultrashort pulse to propagation through a lens with high numerical aperture, in terms of its spatial, as well as of its temporal, profile.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This Use Case demonstrates the characteristics of an ideal SSTF Setup including the effects of chirp.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case demonstrates the modeling a compact reflective microscope system with a very high numerical aperture of 0.99 using VirtualLab Fusion’s fast physical optics technology. Further the result is compared to a reference.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.02.2022
Following the Rayleigh criterion, we investigate the resolution of three microscope objective lenses with different numerical apertures.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the resolution of a microscopy system depends on its numerical aperture.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A physical-optics-based simulation of Czerny-Turner setup consisting of parabolic mirrors and blazed grating for Sodium doublet examination, is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the Fourier modal method and the parametric optimization in VirtualLab Fusion, we demonstrate the analysis and design of anti-reflective moth-eye structures.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
With the rigorous Fourier modal method (FMM), we analyze the effects, especially the phase modulation, of nanopillar structures with varying diameters - the building blocks of metalenses.
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- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We apply the Fourier modal method (FMM / RCWA) within VirtualLab Fusion to analyze resonant waveguide gratings rigorously and demonstrate how to check the resonant effects with focused Gaussian beams.
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- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A holographic volume grating is analyzed by using the Fourier modal method. Both the spectral and angular properties are presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case demonstrates the usage of the Savitzky-Golay filter in order to smooth out a measured spectrum.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf14.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip14.01.2022
The scanning mode of the Parameter Run document generates a simulation series of all combinations of specified parameter variations and provides specifically suited output options.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Design of different types of cells arrays, which are used behind white light LED for generating customized patterns, are presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case introduces the feature of adding anisotropic coatings on surfaces and investigates the polarization conversion of a lambda/4 coating on a plane surface and a curved surface, respectively.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf27.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip27.08.2021
The working principle of a Shack-Hartmann sensor is shown using plane waves and spherical waves with different values of the numerical aperture. The sensor itself consists of a double-convex microlens array.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf30.09.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip30.09.2021
In this use case, a Mirau interferometer is set up in VirtualLab Fusion, via the nonsequential channel concept. Typical interference fringe patterns are simulated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf06.05.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip06.05.2022
This use case demonstrates the application of conical refraction as a tool for polarization metrology.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.04.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.04.2022
When a linearly polarized beam is focused by a high-NA lens, the focal spot shows asymmetry due to the relatively strong Ez component.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
When SLMs are often employed as programmable diffractive optical elements, the influence from the pixel gaps on the system performance is investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The investigation of the influence of real gratings on the efficiency and uniformity of a lightguide are of essential importance. This use case shows an example with a slanted grating as incoupler and binary surface relief grating as EPE and outcoupler.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.11.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip11.11.2021
In this use case, the relationship between the number of alternate birefringent layers and the Bragg reflection condition is explored with VirtualLab Fusion. The variation of the reflectance efficiency with different wavelengths and incident angles is further investigated.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf06.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip06.08.2021
This document illustrates how to use the Multiple Light Source in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.08.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.08.2021
This use case shows the modeling a reflective pyramid wavefront sensor by using VirtualLab Fusion’s Field Tracing technology.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf31.01.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip31.01.2022
A complex 2D exit pupil expander, which consist of both idealized and real gratings, is constructed and modeled, and the uniformity at the waveguide exit plane is presented.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Three types of gratings (modeled by phase-only transmissions) are employed in a single grating interferometer for the x-ray, and the self-images of the selected gratings are examined.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We model a complete high-NA Fourier microscopy system for single-molecule imaging. Exemplarily, we show the effect of e.g. Fresnel losses at interfaces, diffraction from apertures, and compare the simulation results to a reference.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf04.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip04.02.2022
For optical elements, which cannot be found in the catalogs of VirtualLab Fusion, users are able to create them by using programmable objects, e.g., programmable source, interface, medium and detector. The programming language is C#. The source code editors is the most important structure of all programmable objects. This use case introduces the general structure of the source code editor.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
In modern optical systems gratings often appear edged into or deposited onto other elements. Here we cover how to characterise their efficiencies rigorously or by inputting the values ad hoc.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This use case covers the user-friendly interface to select grating orders and specify their efficiencies (either idealized or calculated rigorously) for the grating regions of a light guide.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf28.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.10.2021
The waveguide component allow to define an arbitrary set of grating regions per surface. Per grating region several parameters can be defined. The user can specify a set of selected orders for each grating region.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
By using an idealized non-paraxial polarizer model, the interaction of a polarizer with incident wave from different angles is investigated, and the results are characterized by Stokes parameters.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf12.10.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip12.10.2018
The stress-induced birefringence in a YAG crystal is investigated, by examining the change of output field with respect to the strength of stresses.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf13.07.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.05.2019
We demonstrate, according to T. Clausnitzer et al., how to build up a pulse stretching or compression system with two transmission gratings. Especially, we analyze the polarization dependency of such systems.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion the user can design phase functions, which works as beam shaper, beam splitter and diffuser. This use case shows the usage of the structure design tool, which can be used to convert the phase function into a height profile.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion enables the user to build up an optical system once and analyze it with different tracing techniques. This use case demonstrates how the non-sequential analysis of your setup can be performed.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this document, the application and advantages of the System Modeling Analyzer tool are demonstrated at two different examples.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf18.02.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip18.02.2022
With the region concept in VirtualLab Fusion, apertures with arbitrary shapes can be defined flexibly. Situations with fully and partially illuminated apertures are shown.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
A phase mask with a layer of cones is modeled rigorously in VirtualLab Fusion. Different Talbot images are detected, with the pillar pattern reproduced in the primary image plane and the hole pattern in the secondary.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.03.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.03.2022
We apply both TEA and FMM (also known as RCWA) to analyze two types of gratings (sinusoidal and blazed) with varying period and compare the results from both methods.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
It is demonstrated that the PSF is distorted behind the coverslip of an immersion microscope.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The aplanatic lens model in VirtualLab Fusion provides an easy way to analyze the focusing effects of variously polarized vectorial fields with apertures in different shapes.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion carries an ideal lens model which provides the users with an easy way to analyze focused vectorial fields under different conditions (of, for instance, input polarization and aperture shape).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf16.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip16.07.2021
It is demonstrated that the focal spot is aberrated for tight focusing through a coverslip, which is a stratified medium.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In a fiber coupling optical setup, the coupling efficiency is analyzed with respect to tolerance factors like the shift of fiber end position and the tilt of lens.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In this use case we demonstrate a programmable Parameter Run that allows the user to employ different random distributions for the purpose of tolerancing.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf24.06.2022
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip24.06.2022
In this use case we demonstrate a programmable Parameter Run that allows the user to employ different random distributions for the purpose of tolerancing. The user can choose from uniform, normal and cutoff-normal distributions and can even combine multiple of these distributions for the different parameters involved in the tolerancing in the same Parameter Run.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf28.05.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip28.05.2021
The polarization-dependent properties of ultra-sparse dielectric nanowire grids are analyzed by using the Fourier modal method (FMM, also known as RCWA).
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
For the evaluation of the performance of lightguide systems in the field of AR/MR devices, the lateral uniformity of the light distribution in the eyebox is one of the most crucial parameters. This use case shows how to use VirtualLab’s uniformity detector.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf03.12.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip03.12.2021
It is shown how to model the effect of unpolarized light, as the average of two orthogonal polarization states, for grating simulations in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf01.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip01.07.2021
The Camera Detector constitutes one of the most fundamental detectors in VirtualLab Fusion. Keep reading for an in-depth description of how to configure and use this detector in simulations.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The Debye-Wolf integral calculator in VirtualLab Fusion computes the vectorial field near focus based on an idealized model, when the exact specifications of the objective lens are not known.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
VirtualLab Fusion provides an analyzer for the distortion of an optical system that yields the standard representation of distortion versus angle.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, the field curvature of a lens component can be analyzed precisely, with the field curvature analyzer used. This use case shows how to set up the parameters in the field curvature analyzer.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
The focal length is an important parameter to evaluate an imaging system. By using the Focal Length Analyzer, the effective and back focal length of optical components can be obtained and used with parametric optimization.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Point spread function (PSF) and modulation transfer function (MTF) are important optical quantities to evaluate the quality of an imaging system. In VirtualLab Fusion, PSF and MTF for an imaging system can be calculated fast and accurately.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Using the Parameter Run in VirtualLab Fusion, one can specify the varying range of selected parameters flexibly, so as to perform system analysis, e.g. tolerancing.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
An interferometric setup is built up with SLM, apertures, quarter-wave plates, and grating, in a 4f lens system. Using this setup, we demonstrate the generation of cylindrical vector beams.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
This feature Use Case illustrates the usage of the Global Options parameters that relate to visualization and the graphic display of results.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf11.03.2022
In lens design, the aberration information in the lens system is important for the optimization process. In VirtualLab Fusion, detectors for different kinds of wave aberration representation are provided.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
Wavefront error is defined as the difference between the reference wavefront phase, which is a constant phase or spherical phase, and the detected wavefront phase of one optical system. This use case shows how to handle a wavefront error detector in VirtualLab Fusion.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf25.09.2018
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip25.09.2018
A Michelson interferometer with a Xenon lamp source is modeled with the spectral property, i.e. limited coherence length, of the source fully considered.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
As a demonstration, this Use Case shows the working principle of a typical optical system of the dot projector, including the physical optics modeling of the VCSEL array source, the lens and the beam splitter.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf23.10.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip23.10.2021
We built a confocal scanning microscope in VirtualLab Fusion and used a metallic grating as the test object to demonstrate the working principle of the microscope.
- Use Case (PDF)pdf01.07.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip01.07.2021
In VirtualLab Fusion, we reproduce the famous Young’s interference experiment, and checked the influence from slit width, slit distance, as well as the effect of extended source.
- Use Case PDFpdf22.04.2021
- Use Case and sample files in VirtualLab Fusion (ZIP)zip22.04.2021
VirtualLab Fusion Documentation
This document describes how VirtualLab Fusion is installed and how it can be updated. Questions which might occur during installation are being answered.
VirtualLab Fusion 2nd Generation Technology Update (Build 7.5.0.158)
In this document you will get a deep introduction into VirtualLab Fusion.
- User's Manual (PDF)pdf16.07.2021
Webinars
23 November 2021 The new Microlens Array component with its optional lateral channel decomposition technology makes the simulation of MLAs most efficient...
28 May 2017 We will explore the possibilities of solving fiber coupling tasks, and learn about the typical workflows in VirtualLab Fusion.
16 February 2022 The fast physical optics modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion is perfectly placed to become the simulation tool of choice for optical engineers working in AR and MR...
15 Juni 2021 We will go over the most common workflows in this field of application, so that you can get an impression of the look and feel of the software.
31 August 2021 Listen to our President, Frank Wyrowski talk about the newest applications of our VirtualLab Fusion Software during this EPIC event...
13 January 2021 In the webinar we introduce the concept of diffractive lens and generalize it to the usage of digital holographic surfaces. We briefly compare it with the metalens and Fresnel-type lens approaches. The modeling theory of diffractive lenses is discussed and its implementation and usage in VirtualLab Fusion demonstrated.
11 - 12 May 2022 The purpose of this meeting is to connect the supply chain of advanced manufacturing of microoptics with use cases in different application fields.
20 April 2021 In this webinar we simply put some time aside to play around with the physical optics modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion.
03 February 2021 In this webinar you join us on a journey through the concepts, prospects and myths of the different versions of flat components and lenses.
22 October 2020 The construction of optical systems combining diffraction gratings and lenses and other smooth surfaces is a common occurrence. We have selected three examples to illustrate in the webinar the potential of VirtualLab Fusion in this field.
16 February 2022 Augmented and mixed reality (AR & MR) devices constitute one of the most exciting developments in optical engineering in recent times: mainly due to the thrilling new applications they enable, but also, from an optical engineer’s perspective, because of the challenges arising from such systems. The fast physical optics modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion is perfectly placed to become the simulation tool of choice for optical engineers working in AR and MR. Its consistent vectorial treatment of fields takes complex polarization effects into account, while its “connecting field solvers” technology allows us to combine a rigorous field solver for the grating regions of the lightguide with other, less resource-heavy methods for the free-space propagation and the surfaces of the lightguide, to produce a thorough yet efficient result. Additionally, VirtualLab Fusion offers specific detectors and design algorithms to help the optical designer in his AR & MR design tasks.
27 October 2021 Bayern Photonics and Photonics BW invite you to „Flat Optics and Meta Materials“. Listen to Frank Wyrowski's talk: „Modeling and Design of Flat Optics“...
02 September 2020 VirtualLab Fusion provides a seamless workflow for design and analyzing metagratings.
21 October 2021 Being able to model crystals and anisotropic components accurately is of evident interest across a broad range of fields of application...
in this webinar we would like to provide insight into the general workflow of a process and product optimization using several examples.
03 February 2021 VirtualLab Fusion comes with new features for the modeling and design of systems for fiber optics. Based on linearly polarized (LP) modes and Gaussian-Laguerre solver techniques, we present several use cases.
18 January 2022 President Frank Wyrowski introduces an alternative approach to optical systems modeling in this webinar: identifying and applying the generalization of ray optics inside the framework of physical optics...
17 May 2017 In this webinar, we show how to enable non-sequential tracing in VirtualLab and application use cases, which get large benefits from it.
27 May 2020 In this new webinar series we present the mathematical toolkit that helps make fast physical optics a reality, show how this toolkit is directly reflected in the user interface, and illustrate the impact it has for the average user.
25 August 2021 Many of the features that are introduced in this version help set the stage for a host of new thrilling applications...
02 November 2021 The EPIC Members New Product Release will be a combination of an online meeting with qualified attendees, and a live launch on YouTube for everyone to see...
30 September 2020 In this webinar we will demonstrate the simulation of a series of interferometric setups in the fast physical optics modeling and design software VirtualLab Fusion.
08 July 2020 We are proud to present a new version of VirtualLab Fusion, in which we bring the connecting field solvers technology to the next level. We completely do away with the tendency that exists of only considering diffraction effects at the exit pupil of the system.
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