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The Simon Lab Optics Package in PYthon is a collection of computational methods for the design of optical systems, especially cavities.
It strides to provide a unified interface to perform - ABCD matrix formalism - Raytracing - Perturbation theory on top of paraxial eigenmodes
So far, the package includes Raytracing of Mirrors and Lenses,
- It's recommended use a conda environment to install the required packages::
- conda create -n sloppy
If you want to use this environment as a kernel in your Jupyter Lab, add the kernel as described in this link https://medium.com/@nrk25693/how-to-add-your-conda-environment-to-your-jupyter-notebook-in-just-4-steps-abeab8b8d084.
Apart from the standard packages (numpy, matplotlib, ...), the only package that is a little tricky is K3D-jupyter that is used to eable 3D visualisation in Jupyter Lab. It can be installed via:
conda install -c conda-forge k3d
- To enable the extension for Jupyter Lab run::
- jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager jupyter labextension install k3d
- After cloning using git, install the package in the development version (only one supported now) via::
- python setup.py develop
- You can then generate the documentation (managed via sphinx) as::
- python setup.py docs
This project has been set up using PyScaffold 3.2.3. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see https://pyscaffold.org/.