The invention of the laser has revolutionized industries as disparate as manufacturing and medical care, consumer electronics and space systems. Lasers are devices that emit monochromatic light that has a high degree of collimation and polarization. These properties differ from other light sources such as sunlight or LEDs. Modeling lasers requires unique tools that accurately simulate their beam profile and coherent nature.
Quadoa provides numerous capabilities for laser modeling. Easily define source ray distributions as symmetric or elliptical Gaussian beams. View Gaussian beam profiles and through focus distributions anywhere in the system. For complete coherent beam propagation, the wave optics toolbox utilizes a robust gaussian beam decomposition method that’s not as sensitive to phase sampling as other physical optics methods.