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GENOPTICS
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GENOPTICS
A General Optical Systems Evaluation Program
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The General Optical Systems Evaluation Program, GENOPTICS, was developed
as an aid for the analysis and evaluation of optical systems that
employ lenses, mirrors, diffraction gratings, and other geometrical surfaces.
The GENOPTICS evaluation is performed by means of geometrical ray
tracing based upon Snell's law. The GENOPTICS program can provide for the
exact ray tracing of as many as 800 rays through as many as 40 surfaces.
These surfaces may be planar, conic, toric, or polynomial shaped lenses,
mirrors, and diffraction gratings. Each surface may be tilted about as many
as three axes and may be decentered. Surfaces having bilateral symmetry may
also be analyzed. GENOPTICS provides for user-oriented input and for a wide
range of output for the evaluation of the optical system being analyzed.
GENOPTICS provides a wide range of features for the optical system analyst.
GENOPTICS performs axial ray tracing and computation of the third
order aberrations including aspheric contribution. The program includes
a quasi-automatic ray-surface intersection selection option. Graphical
output can be generated for spot diagrams, radial energy distributions,
and modulation transfer functions, for each object point and each color.
Sag tables may be generated for any rotationally symmetric surface, with
options to obtain the sag differences from a reference sphere in units of
lengths or wavelengths.
Statistics and plots of ray intercepts with any surface in the system
may be obtained for use in vignetting analysis and beam distribution analysis.
Afocal systems can be examined with image statistics generated in
terms of tangents of angles with respect to the optical axis. For exact ray
tracing, a ray pattern at the entrance pupil can be specified as a rectangular
or polar grid, where each ray samples an equal amount of area, or as a
pattern where each ray samples an equal amount of solid angle for a finite
object. This latter pattern is useful in radiometric work.
Input to GENOPTICS includes program control statements, system definition
data, surface data, and task data. Multiple cases may be examined in
a single run. Output includes printed and graphical results. The user can
specify which portions of an analysis are to be printed. Optional printout
includes
- system data,
- surface-to-surface printout of each ray,
- modulation transfer function values,
- radial energy distribution values, and
- paraxial ray data including aberrations.
GENOPTICS is coded to generate plotted
output for a ZETA plotting system but should be readily adapted to other
plotting systems.
GENOPTICS carries the NASA case numbers GSC-12439 and GSC-12823. It was originally released as part of the NASA COSMIC collection.
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