Optics Simulation Python Packages

optiland

Comprehensive optical design, optimization, and analysis in Python, including GPU-accelerated and differentiable ray tracing via PyTorch.

zospy

Wrapper around the Zemax OpticStudio API. Provides a more pythonic and intuitive way to interact with the ZOS-API through python using a .NET connection.

torcwa

GPU-accelerated RCWA with automatic differentiation

dlux

Differentiable Physical Optics Propagation in Jax

optikit

A basic optics module

lightwaveexplorer

An efficient, user-friendly solver for nonlinear light-matter interaction

paos

PAOS, the Physical Optics Simulator, is a fast, modern, and reliable Python package for Physical Optics studies. It implements Physical Optics Propagation in Fresnel approximation and paraxial ray tracing to analyze complex waveform propagation through both generic and off-axes optical systems.

opticalpy

Exact geometrical optics including dispersion to learn and design optical instruments

snlo-helper

An autoclicker to automatically configure and read SNLO.

gradoptics

Differentiable Optics via Ray Tracing

rainbow-utils

Transfer Matrix Method