Optical

A GPL Optical simulation program for mixed coherent / incoherent multilayer systems

(c) 2005-2022 Emanuele Centurioni

Credits: Caterina Summonte, Roberto Pinghini

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Features and capabilities:

• Can treat multilayers with any number of coherent and incoherent layer in any position and for any Incidence angle using a Generalized Scattering Matrix Method

• Can compute total light Reflectance, Transmittance, internal Absorption and internal Energy Flux

• Can do thickness determination by fitting of experimental R and T spectra

• EMA (Effective Medium Approximation) for mixed phase materials is integrated in the structure editor

• Is a Python cross-platform software released under the GPL license

Documentation:

• Go to the Tutorial on-line

Bibliography

• Whenever refering to "Optical", please cite a reference to the following publication: E.Centurioni, "Generalized matrix method for calculation of internal light energy flux in mixed coherent and incoherent multilayers", Applied Optics, Vol. 44, No. 35 (2005), pp 7532-7539.

Download:

• Download Optical.zip

• A new version for Python 3 is available here

How to install:

• Unzip Optical.zip, a directory called "Optical" will be created. Go to the folder "install" and follow instructions in "readme.txt"

Last Modified: 29 May 2012