How to Work with the Programmable Spectrum and Example

Providing maximum versatility for your optical simulations is one of our most fundamental objectives. In this document we show you how to work with the Programmable Spectrum: that is, how to define a function that assigns a different complex weight to each wavelength/frequency present in the spectral make-up of a field, working under assumptions of stationary behaviour. The black-body emitter is one of the default spectrum models in VirtualLab, but we use it here as a basic programming example.