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Physical Optics Modeling with FRED

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.

Course Overview

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

IN-PERSON TUTORIAL ONLY

• $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

REQUIREMENTS

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.

Registration

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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

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