Get Started#
Everything you need to go from an empty environment to a traced, analyzed optical system, plus the reference pages you will keep coming back to.
Choose a learning path for students, practising optical engineers, computational researchers or contributors.
pip install optiland, optional PyTorch and GPU support, the GUI, and
building from source.
A complete five-minute tour: build, trace, analyze and optimize a lens.
The surface-sequential model, the “after” rule, sign conventions and units. Read this first.
A task-shaped index mapping concrete questions to the example that answers each one.
Copy-paste snippets for the most common operations.
Definitions of the optical and Optiland-specific terms used throughout the documentation.
Explore and edit systems interactively with the Optiland desktop GUI.