Photorealistic visualization of imaging in canonical optical resonators

John Nelson; Johannes Courtial; Graeme Whyte

doi:10.1119/1.2970053

Photorealistic visualization of imaging in canonical optical resonators

John Nelson, Johannes Courtial, Graeme Whyte

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Abstract

We investigate the capability of open source freeware ray tracing rendering software to demonstrate the imaging properties of canonical optical resonators. This software can directly visualize the imaging properties of canonical resonators. We can also demonstrate effects such as the trapping of light rays in geometrically stable resonators and the formation of fractal intensity patterns in the eigenmodes of geometrically unstable resonators.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	991-995
Number of pages	5
Journal	American Journal of Physics
Volume	76
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2970053
Publication status	Published - Nov 2008

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