PhysicalOptics (DEPRECATED)

A package for simulation of physical optics. Physical optics is more general than ray optics but not as general as full electrodynamics.

Warning

⚠️⚠️ This package has been deprecated in favor of WaveOpticsPropagation.jl ⚠️⚠️

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Installation

Currently not registered and under development. But the main branch can be installed with:

julia> ] add https://github.com/JuliaPhysics/PhysicalOptics.jl

Features

Implemented

• Fast convolutions adapted to the needs of Physical Optics. Methods like conv_psf and conv_otf are wrappers for the more general conv and conv_v_ft.
• Light propagation with Fresnel and Rayleigh-Sommerfeld (propagate)
• 2D jinc PSF
• some conversion methods
• Light propagation with Fresnel
• Optical elements like lenses, apertures
• some optical conversions
• micro lenses
• Light propagation with Fraunhofer
• Focused and defocused PSFs (3D) with Debye integral.

Wanted

• Register adjoints of convolution via ChainRulesCore
• more tests
• cleaning of method arguments
• Documentation

Literature

As resources we recommend

• Goodman, Joseph W. Introduction to Fourier optics,
• Mertz, Jerome. Introduction to optical microscopy. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

For simulation there exists a MATLAB tutorial

• Voelz, David. "Computational fourier optics: a MATLAB tutorial." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2011.

Similar Projects

In Julia there is no similar project. However, in Python POPPY offers similar functionality.