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Optica Software
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Optica Software is a commercial optical design program used for the design and analysis of both imaging and illumination systems. It works by ray tracing the propagation of rays through an optical system. It performs polarization ray-tracing, non-sequential ray-tracing, energy calculations, and optimization of optical systems in three-dimensional space. It also performs symbolic modeling of optical systems, diffraction, interference, wave-front, and Gaussian beam propagation calculations. Some common applications include holography, x-ray optics, Cerenkov radiation, microwave optics, telescope optics, laser design, eye models and solar concentrators. History Optica was originally developed by Donald Barnhart of Urbana, Illinois, USA, and has been in continual development since 1994. Wolfram Research first sold the original version as a Mathematica application. It was later sold by Optica Software, now part of Barnhart Optical Research. Editions * Optica 3 and 4 * Rayica/Wavica ( now part of Optica 3 and greater) * LensLabs ( includes all the Optica 1 features) See Also
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