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Optica installation notes

Optica documentation folder(see installation notes above)

Rayica installation notes

Optica3 overview Mathematica notebook - Wolfram Research conference talk

Rayica and Optica GUI notes

Rayica/Optica3 GUI patch info - how to update Java for Windows Vista

Examples with Optica3
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View the Getting Started with Optica Guide! START

Tour of Rayica and Basic Optica 3 Features
Here is a graphical tour of examples in Rayica. START

Additional Features of Optica 3
Here is a graphical overview of Optica's additional features. START
(Note that Optica 3 also contains the Rayica features given above.)

Rayica User Guide
Here is the basic user guide of Rayica. (pdf file) (html)

LensLab User Guide

Introduction

Overview

Chapter 1: Basic Features of LensLab

Chapter 2: How LensLab Does Ray Tracing

Chapter 3: Tour of Component Functions

Chapter 4: Positioning Functions

Chapter 5: Advanced Features of LensLab

Chapter 6: Experimenting with LensLab

Chapter 7: Designing with LensLab

Chapter 8: The Anatomy of Ray

Chapter 9: The Anatomy of Component

Appendix: Reference Guide

Principles Of Rayica
Here is the advanced user guide for Rayica:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Placement Directives

Chapter 3: Ray Tracing in Detail

Chapter 4: Customization

Chapter 5: Data Handling in Rayica

Chapter 6: Visualizing Your System

Chapter 7: Working with CreateClones

Rayica Definitions Listing
Here is an alphabetical listing of all Rayica and basic Optica 3 definitions. START

Optica 3 Advanced Definitions Listing
Here is an alphabetical listing of all Optica 3's advanced definitions. START
(Note that Optica 3 also uses the Rayica definitions given above.)

Example Library: GRIN lenses
Here is an overview of graded-index refraction. START

Advanced Topics: Notebook Downloads

Advanced TurboTrace (zip file) (html)

Hologram Example (zip file) (html)

Pulse Compression Example (zip file) (html)

Grating compressor ( contributed by Ingmar Hartl, IMRA) ( zip file of Mathematica notebook) (pdf file)

Sun Model (contributed by Ben Jacobson, Illumitech, www.illumitech.com ) ( zip file of Mathematica notebook) (pdf file)

Sun Model using GridOfRays and CustomDiffuser functions ( zip file of Mathematica notebook) (pdf file)

Optical mediums ( zip file of Mathematica notebook) (pdf file)

Arbitrary Precision Calculations (zip file) (html)

Luneberg Lens ( Graded Index example) (zip file) (html)

Optimization of Aspheric Components (zip file) (html)

Optimization of curvature and conic constants of an asymmetric conic mirror zip file