Global Enhancements List

[Jashcraf]

List of enhancements sorted roughly by category. If one is added an issue should be made where progress can be tracked.

1) Physics

• 1.1 Thin film characteristic matrix with spatial variance #7
• 1.2 Assess need for Berreman calculus #8
• 1.3 Add dispersion relations to simplify polychromatic calculations #16
• 1.4 Lagrange Invariant Calculation for Parabasal Rays #35

2) Code

• 2.1 Accept list of refractive indices #9
• 2.2 Add Docstrings, pleaaase #20
• 2.3 Rethink structure of code for ease of use #22
• 2.4 Add Poke to Zenodo and get DOI #26
• 2.5 Create "loopless" GBD for more efficient computation #31
• 2.6 Make HCIPy Interface with PRT, GBD Calculation #42
• 2.7 Make POPPY Interface with GBD, PRT #43
• 2.8 Permanent File Structure for Saving Rayfronts #45

3) Visualization

• 3.1 Jones pupil plot #10
• 3.2 Mueller pupil plot #11
• 3.3 Polarization beam map plot #12
• 3.4 Polarization & Gaussian Beam Waist plot #23
• 3.5 ABCD Matrix Plots v.s. Entrance Pupil Coordinate #24

4) Raytrace Interfacing

• 4.1 Option to grab Zemax refractive indices & coating #13

5) Testing

• 5.1 Unit tests for raybundle class #14
• 5.2 Unit tests for PRT calculations #15
• 5.3 Tests for thinfilms_prysm integration #19

6) Experiments

• 6.1 Troubleshooting an Arbitrarily Aberrated GBD System #17
• 6.2 Design vAPP with HCIPy #18
• 6.3 Space Telescope Polarization Aberrations #21

[Jashcraf]

Erratum tracing issue

• Erratum #25

[Jashcraf]

Enhancements are largely dedicated on the restructure branch, I'd say that the beamlet calculation needs to be working there before manuscript submission. So its probably a good thing to work on while the coauthors are revising

[Jashcraf]

I think it would be very useful to include tolerancing utilities, but that might be a little more challenging. We have access to the OPD from the raytrace so we can use that as a figure of merit. But perturbing the optical system may be challenging.

Maybe we create instances of a 'surface' class when the dictionary is passed to the optical system, and then don't close the connection to ZOS?

[Jashcraf]

• sample task