Click me!
Javascript is deactivated! Optico can't work without Javascript so please enable it in your browser!
Idea
- web-based
- platform independent
- interactive
- intuitive
- open source
- non-sequential
Features
- spot diagram
- transverse aberration diagram
- spherical lenses
- ideal lenses
- mirrors
- stops
- basic ZEMAX import
Project details
- Idea & Project Management: Michael Wick
- One starting point of the development was the simulator developed by Yi-Ting Tu (University of Maryland), from which parts of the basic structure were used in OPTICO
- Johannes Aurnhammer (mplementation of the three-dimensional optics simulation) is part of the permanent project team
- Former student assistants: Christoph Schmelzer
- Another related project is The Secret Life of Photons by Benedik Bitterli
- OPTICO is a project of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Applied Sciences Coburg
- OPTICO was supported by the Innovation Fund of the University of Applied Sciences Coburg
- Contact us: Michael Wick