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mjhoptics / ray-optics

geometric ray tracing for optical systems
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Does this package do exact ray-tracing, or uses the paraxial approximation? #51

Closed LaurentRDC closed 3 years ago

LaurentRDC commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Thank you for putting together this package!

I'm looking for a ray-tracing package that does exact ray-tracing, not just paraxial ray-tracing, but I could not determine if this package is suitable.

Can you confirm to me that this package implements exact ray-tracing? If so, you might want to also mention it in the documentation.

Cheers! Laurent

mjhoptics commented 3 years ago

Hello Laurent, Yes, ray-optics does implement exact, trigonometric, ray tracing. The low level interface is in the raytr.raytrace module; a higher level interface, using relative aperture and field specifications, is in the raytr.trace module. I have a number of jupyter notebooks in my ray-optics-notebooks repo that show how to use ray-optics for different analyses. Hope this helps. Mike

LaurentRDC commented 3 years ago

Awesome, thank you so much! I will take a look