Python modules for laser simulation, contained in the folder laser

14/08/2018

• abcd
  • Beam path calculation based on ABCD matrices, assuming paraxial approximation
• data_utils
  • Several functions to process and analyze laser data
• fn_gain
  • Amplifier gain simulation using Frantz-Nodvik formalism. Only titanium-sapphire cross-section data available for now
  • Need to add an example notebook
• fresnel_propag
  • Transverse 2D complex electric field propagator
  • Possibility to couple it to abcd.Beampath
• materials
  • Indexes of refraction for several common laser optics materials
• misc
  • Some general useful functions
• plot_utils
  • Some useful functions to plot data
• zernike
  • Module to generate and analyse laser wavefront based on the Zernike polynomials

Download or clone this repository and navigate into the directroy laser. There run python setup.py install.