6. Tutorials for scalar propagation

• Algorithms
  • 1. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
  • 2. Rayleigh-Sommerfeld (RS)
  • 3. Plane wave decomposition (PWD)
  • 4. Chirped Z-transform (CZT)
  • 5. Beam Propagation Method (BPM)
  • 6. Wave Propagation Method (WPM)
• 6.1. Comparison between algorithms
  • 6.1.1. Comparison between RS and WPM
  • 6.1.2. Comparison between WPM and BPM
  • 6.1.3. Comparison between RS and CZT
• 6.2. Scalar_X
  • 6.2.1. Characteristics
  • 6.2.2. Example of light sources
  • 6.2.3. Example of masks
• 6.3. Scalar_XY
  • 6.3.1. Characteristics
  • 6.3.2. Propagation
  • 6.3.3. Example of light sources
  • 6.3.4. Examples of masks
  • 6.3.5. Other procedures to generate XY masks
• 6.4. Scalar_XYZ
  • 6.4.1. Characteristics
  • 6.4.2. Wave Propagation Method and BPM in 3D
  • 6.4.3. WPM 3D with storing intermediate data
  • 6.4.4. XYZ masks
  • 6.4.5. Other procedures to generate XYZ masks
• Scalar_XZ
  • 1. Characteristics
  • 2. Propagation and other parameters
  • 3. Save and load masks and fields
  • 4. Surface detection of masks
  • 5. Reduction of the field
  • 6. Incident field: location
  • 7. Recovering the final field
  • 8. Beam Propagation Method: Filtering
  • 9. Rotating masks and fields
  • 10. Find focus tool
  • 11. Examples of multiprocessing
  • 12. Example of masks
  • 13. Definite masks
  • 14. Other procedures to generate XZ masks
  • 15. Drawing XZ
• 6.5. Scalar_Z
  • 6.5.1. Scalar field Z
• 6.6. Some info about drawing and videos
  • 6.6.1. Drawing in logarithm scale
  • 6.6.2. Development of video using Matplotlib
  • 6.6.3. Interactive visualization of propagation of light in Jupyter notebook
  • 6.6.4. Directly with interactive
  • 6.6.5. Interactive internal to diffractio
  • 6.6.6. Images external to jupyter: %matplotlib notebook
• Other cases
  • 1. Fresnel equations