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Gra­tings as a Part of Opti­cal Systems

Sum­mary

The con­s­truc­tion of opti­cal sys­tems com­bi­ning dif­frac­tion gra­tings and len­ses and other smooth sur­faces is a com­mon occur­rence, across many appli­ca­ti­ons like spec­tro­scopy, in micro­scopy using the gra­ting as a test object, or in AR & MR glas­ses. This is not reflec­ted in the field of simu­la­tion: it is rare, even today, to find soft­ware which can con­vin­cin­gly tackle the mode­ling of such sys­tems. The reason for this is the vast dif­fe­rence in the struc­tu­ral dimen­si­ons of the two types of com­pon­ents, which means dra­sti­cally dif­fe­rent algo­rithms are nee­ded for each of them.

Vir­tual­Lab Fusion can fill the void: its con­nec­ting field sol­vers approach offers a seam­less stit­ching of the requi­red algo­rithms on one sin­gle soft­ware plat­form. For the user, this trans­la­tes into a fast phy­si­cal optics expe­ri­ence of the simu­la­tion of these opti­cal systems.

We have sel­ec­ted three examp­les to illus­trate in the web­i­nar the poten­tial of Vir­tual­Lab Fusion in this field:

• Con­fo­cal Scan­ning Micro­scope with Gra­ting as Test Object
• Demons­tra­tion of a Spectrometer
• Light Guide with Gra­tings for In- and Outcoupling

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