asap

just some cool stuff one can do with ASAP:

Dove Prism

POFcoupler1_Shao_Trinidad

POFcoupler2_Shao_Trinidad

Free-form TIR reflector_Shao_Trinidad

Tapered Light Pipe

view from the light sources (4 LEDs) and the homogeneous distribution of light at the tapered end.

Projector_Shao_Trinidad

GhostAnalysis

LCD Diffuser Design

and a lot of cooler ones like modeling interference..by ray tracing!

MICHELSON_INTERFEROMETER

SLITDIFFPATTERN

ProjectionEngine_Pro6_Shao_Trinidad

red (bottom), green (left), and blue (top) light sources focused on a polarizing beam splitter designed to transmit s-polarized light.

very good homogeneity of red, green, and blue light at the detector.

SELFOC

see the parabolic bending of light in the lens? beautiful! boyang did ask why we had to let the light propagate in free space instead of just using one GRIN lens to couple light into two fibers and i was, like, so we'd have something to optimize, of course! haha. indeed, using just one lens would be very advantageous as you can get rid of some of the alignment issues, for one. seriously, though, things like these actually exist in the market but they've fixed the alignment pretty well.

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