Optica Optics Software

Optica is an optical design program used for the design and analysis of both imaging and illumination systems.[1] It works by ray tracing the propagation of rays through an optical system. It performs polarization ray-tracing, non-sequential ray-tracing, energy calculations, and optimization of optical systems in three-dimensional space. It also performs symbolic modeling of optical systems, diffraction, interference, wave-front, and Gaussian beam propagation calculations. In addition to conducting simulations of optical designs, Optica is used by scientists to create illustrations of the simulated results in publications. Some examples of Optica being used in simulations and illustrations include holography,[2] x-ray optics, spectrometers,[3] Cerenkov radiation,[4] microwave optics, nonlinear optics, scattering,[5] camera design,[6] extreme ultraviolet lithography simulations,[7][8] telescope optics,[9][10] laser design, ultrashort pulse lasers,[11] eye models,[12][13] solar concentrators[14] and Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) particle detectors.[15][16]

## History

Optica was originally developed by Donald Barnhart of Urbana, Illinois, USA, and has been in continual development since 1994. Wolfram Research first sold the original version as a Mathematica application.[17] From 2005 to 2009, Optica Software was sold by iCyt Mission Technology Inc, Champaign, Illinois (renamed Sony Biotechnology Inc in 2010). At iCyt, Optica2 was renamed as Rayica, and Wavica and LensLab were also developed. Later Rayica-Wavica was combined and named back to Optica3. Since 2009, Optica Software has been a subsidiary of Barnhart Optical Research LLC.

## References

1. ↑ "Software Packages Simplify Complex Optical System Design" ESCO optics, Wickersham
2. ↑ "New software tools facilitate the development of better holographic systems" Holography, The International Society for Optical Engineering, June 2005, Vol. 16, No.1
3. ↑ Braig, Christoph; Löchel, Heike; Mitzner, Rolf; Quevedo, Wilson; Loukas, Panagiotis; Kubin, Markus; Weniger, Christian; Firsov, Alexander et al. (2014). "Design and optimization of a parallel spectrometer for ultra-fast X-ray science". Optics Express 22 (10): 12583–13102. doi:10.1364/OE.22.012583. PMID 24921376. Bibcode: 2014OExpr..2212583B.
4. ↑ "Experimental Testing of Dynamically Optimized Photoelectron Beams, p12-15" Proceedings of the 46th Workshop of the INFN ELOISATRON Project, Erice, Italy, 9 – 14 October 2005
5. ↑ Sedarsky, David; Berrocal, Edouard; Linne, Mark (2011). "Quantitative image contrast enhancement in time-gated transillumination of scattering media". Optics Express 19 (3): 1866–1883. doi:10.1364/OE.19.001866. PMID 21369002. Bibcode: 2011OExpr..19.1866S. https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.001866.
6. ↑ "Measurement of oxygen saturation in the retina with a spectroscopic sensitive multi aperture camera" Optics Express, Vol16, No9, 2008, p 6173
7. ↑ "Partially coherent extreme ultraviolet interference lithography for 16 nm patterning research" Applied Physics Letters Volume 93, 083110, 2008
8. ↑ M. Goldstein, V. Bakshi. Optical Design for Affordable EUV Lithography, Int. Sym. EUVL., Sapporo, Japan (2007).
9. ↑ "Constructing a Cassegrain Telescope"
10. ↑ David N. Whiteman, Demetrius Venable, Eduardo Landulfo. (2011) "Comments on “Accuracy of Raman lidar water vapor calibration and its applicabilityto long-term measurements” Applied Optics 50, 2170. Online publication date: 20-May-2011
11. ↑ Ionel, Laura Emilia (June 2014). "Numerical analysis of spatial distortions in a single-grating chirped pulse amplification system". Optik 125 (12): 2800–2803. doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2013.11.043. Bibcode: 2014Optik.125.2800I. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030402614000138.
12. ↑ Ko, Heung Cho; Stoykovich, Mark P.; Song, Jizhou; Malyarchuk, Viktor; Choi, Won Mook; Yu, Chang-Jae; Geddes III, Joseph B.; Xiao, Jianliang et al. (2008). "A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics" (in en). Nature 454 (7205): 748–753. doi:10.1038/nature07113. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 18685704. Bibcode: 2008Natur.454..748K. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7205/fig_tab/nature07113_F4.html.
13. ↑ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/OpticalModelOfTheHumanEye/ " Optica Human Eye Model",
14. ↑ "Temporarily Disabled". http://www.opticasoftware.com/news/Newsletters/June2008Newsletter.pdf.
15. ↑ A. Petrolini, RICH1 and the LHCb/RICH upgrade: re-optimization of the optics; LHCb-PUB-2013-012; CERN-LHCb-PUB-2013-012.
16. ↑ Baszczyk, M. K. (2017). "Test of the photon detection system for the LHCb RICH Upgrade in a charged particle beam". Journal of Instrumentation 12 (1): 01012. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/01/P01012. Bibcode: 2017JInst..12P1012B. https://cds.cern.ch/record/2223646.
17. ↑ "ScientificWeb"

## External links

* Optica Software Website
* Wolfram Research Optics Page
* Wolfram Research Optica3

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