PRO-lib-optics

The PRO_lib software is a module for the Python programming language running on Microsoft Windows. It is a toolbox for the analysis and the design of optical systems.

Easy to learn

• Effortless scripting in the Python programming language
• Step-by-step creation of optical systems in user-friendly, interactive environments such as IDLE, IdleX, JupyterLab or Jupyter Notebook, no support of Spyder
• Easy, self-explanatory learning thanks to many examples
• Detailed description of functions with instructions for use

Versatile

• Variety of optical sources and components including conical and pyramidal light guides and reflector optics
• Integration of free-form surfaces and apertures from user-defined external functions
• Essential tools for the analysis and synthesis of optical systems such as paraxial analyses, spot diagrams, wavefront errors, ray aberrations, interferograms, transfer functions, Zernike analysis and basic optimization
• Detection of interference in coherent systems
• Support of physical and ray optics, no support of integrated optics
• Conversion between rays and wavefunctions in mixed systems
• Large optical materials library, easily editable and expandable

Powerful

• Reliable sequential ray tracing engine with 2d- and 3d rendering, no ray splitting or polarization
• Accurate and consistent results validated with market-leading software
• Power ray tracing for optical throughput calculations
• Diffraction-limited system analysis with scalar physical optics tools

Integrating

• Simple import of PRO_lib module in your Python code
• Easy access to simulation data for further processing
• Basic support of ZMX file format for import of catalog lenses
• Export to STL file for integration of optical system in CAD software packages