Photon Engineering’s advanced tutorial on Physical Optics Modeling is an intensive 3-day instruction covering the fundamentals of FRED’s physical optics propagator, modeling diffraction phenomena, modeling interference phenomena, application of coherent sources, and configuring models for polarization applications.
Introduction
A brief overview of propagation algorithms in ray tracing
Review of Gaussian beam properties
The details of complex ray tracing
Diffraction Modeling
Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction effects
Wavefront analysis
Near-field diffraction effects
Interference Modeling
Multiple beam interference
Configuring surface properties for interference effects
Interference of polychromatic sources
Coherent Sources
How coherent sources are constructed
Beam quality and M-squared sources
Customizing coherent source definitions
Beamlet errors, limitation and resampling
Review of beamlet failure mechanisms
Advanced coherent source controls
Spatial and directional field resampling
Polarization
Tools for polarization analysis
Analyzing effects from coatings and materials
Polarization specification of diverging sources
Stokes analysis
• $2,350 per student registration (refundable if cancellation is made at least 14 days prior to the course starting date)
• Live and interactive class runs from 9am to 5pm with an expert trainer
• Professionally printed and bound lecture notes in addition to PDF lecture notes and example files
• Transportation, hotel accommodations and meal expenses are not included in the registration fee
The physical optics modeling class has two prerequisites:
(1) The attendees have to be reasonably proficient FRED users because it is a “hand’s on” class. The attendees will be expected to setup FRED models, trace rays, set analysis surfaces, etc.
(2) The attendees need to have a decent background in physical optics. They should have a rudimentary (at least) understanding of coherence/incoherence, interferometry, polarization, Zernike decompositions, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, etc.
Please take the following steps in order to complete your registration.
Download the Registration Form
Send completed forms to fredsales@photonengr.com and submit credit card payment information to our sales team over the phone at 1-520-733-9557