A web app for creating and simulating 2D geometric optical scenes, with a gallery of (interactive) demos.

An extension for Inkscape that makes it easier to draw optical diagrams.

Comprehensive optical design, optimization, and analysis in Python, including GPU-accelerated and differentiable ray tracing via PyTorch.

Simulation of the propagation of incoherent light, aiming to illustrate the concept of spatial coherence.

GPU-accelerated RCWA with automatic differentiation

An efficient, user-friendly solver for nonlinear light-matter interaction

tmm_fast is a lightweight package to speed up optical planar multilayer thin-film device computation. Developed by Alexander Luce (@Nerrror) in cooperation with Heribert Wankerl (@HarryTheBird).

Wrapper around the Zemax OpticStudio API. Provides a more pythonic and intuitive way to interact with the ZOS-API through python using a .NET connection.

Differentiable optical models as parameterised neural networks in Jax using Zodiax

🔆 Realistic simulations of holographic displays.

A Matlab simulation for a 4F Correlator system which is based on the Fourier transforming properties of lenses.

🌀 Realistic defocus blur for Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography

Python package for Mie scattering computation and analysis.

EMUstack is an open-source simulation package for calculating light propagation through multi-layered stacks of dispersive, lossy, nanostructured, optical media. It implements a generalised scattering matrix method, which extends the physical intuition of thin film optics to complex structures.

An optics simulation suite for Windows and Linux, including a raytracer, a FDTD solver and various tools.

NumBAT, the Numerical Brillouin Analysis Tool, integrates electromagnetic and acoustic mode solvers to calculate the interactions of optical and acoustic waves in waveguides.

A general 4x4 transfer matrix for optical waves in layered media for Julia

Tools for Optical Simulations

Wave-transfer matrix and scattering matrix toolbox. Can be used for simple calculation of wave-transfer matrix or scattering matrix of multilayer optical system. Scattering matrix can be converted to transmittance and reflectance very simply.

Random Laser simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics.