Advanced Geometry Modeling in RayJack ONE®
In previous releases of RayJack ONE®, we have already implemented all kinds of surfaces typically needed for optical simulations. If there is still one missing, users can supply their own surface
definitions through #Python functions.
In order to facilitate your work in imaging and illumination optics, RayJack ONE®’s latest 3.2.5 release offers the following frequently requested surface types:
· Zernike surfaces, which can be used “stand-alone” or as deformations of a base surface such as an asphere; various conventions for entering Zernike
coefficients are supported
· Toroidal surfaces with an aspheric profile
· Surfaces based on the various types of Forbes polynomials
· User defined NURBS surfaces to allow for true freeform optics
The animation shows ray tracing through a NURBS surface, varying the weight of one of the control points.
Finding Unlikely Ray Paths in RayJack ONE®
Consider a mirror cabinet consisting of three curved mirrors, illuminated by a point source. Only a small fraction of light will finally hit the small detector behind the last
mirror.
This simple optical system mimics a typical situation in stray light analysis, where light paths are often “unlikely” meaning that only a very few rays follow it. Normally this causes large
statistical errors in the results or excessively long simulation times. But there is a smarter solution …
RayJack ONE®’s path finder tool allows you to find as many rays for a given path as you want. It iteratively searches for rays connecting a sequence of objects until the rays finally hit the
detector. And differential ray tracing ensures noise-free results.
The picture shows a ray trace through the system along with the irradiance distribution and optical path length map on the detector.
Sprecher:Dr. Bernhard Michel
Zum Thema: "Falschlicht: Ursachen, Analyse, Reduktion"
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