Adding Optical Manipulation to Transverse and Longtiduinal Profiles

[rob-shalloo]

One of the advantages of lasy is it's ability to separately define the longitudinal and transverse profiles of the laser pulse and then combine them together. Currently, the subsequent manipulation of the pulse (eg. adding an optic, propagating etc.) requires the full laser object, which is often a 2-3D array.

It would be highly beneficial if we could add some of these features into the transverse and longitudinal profiles of the laser or for example choose to take a full laser object but only manipulate the transverse profile or only manipulate the longitudinal profile without carrying around the baggage of the rest of the grid, slowing down computations.

Not entirely sure yet what the best way to approach this would be, but perhaps warrants a discussion.