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Found the following on sourceforge. jOcular (java8, jar file, pre-alpha but gets a couple of good reviews) https://sourceforge.net/projects/jocular/Optical htt

by k310 4y ago

Found the following on sourceforge. jOcular (java8, jar file, pre-alpha but gets a couple of good reviews) https://sourceforge.net/projects/jocular/Optical https://sourceforge.net/projects/jocular/Optical Design Software for optical systems comprised of light sources, lenses, apertures, prisms, imagers, photometers, etc. Simulate light through the system and compute images and intensities at various locations in the design. Has a help page https://sourceforge.net/p/jocular/wiki/jOcular%20Help/ https://sourceforge.net/p/jocular/wiki/jOcular%20Help/ Has a wiki page with optical and technical stuff: https://sourceforge.net/p/jocular/wiki/Technical%20and%20Theoretical%20Stuff/ https://sourceforge.net/p/jocular/wiki/Technical%20and%20The... VOpR - a virtual optical rail(java, Alpha) https://sourceforge.net/projects/vopr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vopr/ VOpR allows to create and evaluate simple optical systems, in which the basic optical elements are arranged along the optical axis. The current supported optical elements are: spaces, spherical lenses, circular apertures and flat blocks of some optical medium. No reviews LaserCalc https://sourceforge.net/projects/lasercalc/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lasercalc/ LaserCalc is an Open Source wxWidgets application for the calculation of optical beam paths and laser resonators based on Gaussian beam matrix optics. In addition beam paths can be optimized to match given beam parameters (mode matching). 3 good reviews. OpenRayTrace https://openraytrace.sourceforge.net https://openraytrace.sourceforge.net OpenRayTrace is the cross platform optical design software. It uses Python, wxPython, pyOpenGL and related APIs. It has the following features: Skew Ray Tracing Spot Diagrams Random Ray Tracing for extended Sources Aberration Plotting pre-alpha, no reviews, docs seem to be missing. Pretty pictures, though. Some basic info: https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-design-forms/ https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-design-forms/ https://www.opticaldesignsoftware.net https://www.opticaldesignsoftware.net

giantg2 4y ago
Thanks! I was looking at pencilofrays earlier. It had some stuff on reflective lenses, but not everything I need.
- k310 4y ago
  There are lots of optical design books out there. IIRC, most follow the approach of Warren Smith's classic: "Modern Optical Engineering" in starting out from simple paraxial ray tracing, where sin(x)≈x in radians, and advance from there. If you have some specific topics to learn, you might find them in separate texts, such as Reflective Optics, by Dietrich Korsch (technical) or others.

by k310 4y ago

giantg2 4y ago

Thanks! I was looking at pencilofrays earlier. It had some stuff on reflective lenses, but not everything I need.

k310 4y ago
There are lots of optical design books out there. IIRC, most follow the approach of Warren Smith's classic: "Modern Optical Engineering" in starting out from simple paraxial ray tracing, where sin(x)≈x in radians, and advance from there. If you have some specific topics to learn, you might find them in separate texts, such as Reflective Optics, by Dietrich Korsch (technical) or others.