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HoloPy <http://holopy.readthedocs.io>_ is a python based
tool for working with digital holograms and light scattering. HoloPy
can:
Load <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/load_tutorial.html#loading-and-viewing-a-hologram>_ images, associate them with experimental
metadata <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/load_tutorial.html#telling-holopy-about-your-experimental-setup>_, and visualize loaded or calculated images.
Reconstruct <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/recon_tutorial.html>_ 3D volumes from digital holograms
Do Scattering Calculations <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/calc_tutorial.html>_
Compute Holograms, electric fields, scattered intensity, cross sections, ...
From spheres, clusters of spheres, and arbitrary structures
(using DDA <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/dda_tutorial.html>_)
Make precise measurements by fitting scattering models <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/fit_tutorial.html>_ (based on the above structures) to experimental
data.
HoloPy provides a powerful and user-friendly interface to scattering and optical propagation theories. It also provides a set of flexible objects that make it easy to describe and analyze data from complex experiments or simulations. HoloPy's optical propagation theories work for holograms of arbitrary objects; HoloPy's current scattering calculations accurately describe scatterers in sizes from tens of micrometers and smaller.
The easiest way to see what HoloPy is all about is to jump to the
examples in our user guide <http://holopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/index.html>_.
HoloPy started as a project in the Manoharan Lab at Harvard University <http://manoharan.seas.harvard.edu/>. If you use HoloPy,
you may wish to cite one or more of our papers <http://manoharan.seas.harvard.edu/holographic-microscopy>. We also
encourage you to sign up for our User Mailing List <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/holopy-users>_ to keep up to date
on releases, answer questions, and benefit from other users'
questions.
HoloPy is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers CBET-0747625, DMR-0820484, DMR-1306410, and DMR-1420570.