Gaussian beam as a source

[vlaphy]

Thank you for this great simulator!

Are there any plans of adding a Gaussian beam as a source? I am working with lasers and they all have Gaussian profile, so it would be nice for me to see how they interact with lenses in the simulator.

Sincerely,
valphy

[ricktu288]

I think Gaussian beams cannot be well described by ray optics. Wave optics is not the purpose of this project.

[vlaphy]

Dear Yi-Ting Tu, I used your Ray Optics Simulation web app to draw one figure for my scientific paper. To credit you as an author of the simulator I will put the link to the simulator to the reference list of the paper. Is that ok? Sincerely yours, Vlatko Gasparic

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[ricktu288]

Sure.