CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 53, No.: 4, year: 2023

Author(s): Tichý, V.; Hudec, R.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 53, no. 4, p. 206-214.
Date: 12/2023
Title: Overview of LOPSIMUL software, quick ray-tracing simulator of multi-foil reflective optical system
Keyword(s): multi-foil optics, lobster eye, ray-tracing, simulations, reflective optics, grazing incidence optics, x-ray optics
Pages: 206 -- 214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/caosp.2023.53.4.206
NASA ADS Abstract Service: 2023CoSka..53d.206T
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License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Abstract: This paper presents description of LOPSIMUL ray-tracing simulation software that offers extremely high computational rate. LOPSIMUL has not a specific requirements for computer hardware and the computing time is less than one second or few seconds on a common personal computer. The software is optimized for lobster eye reflective optics (Angel as well as Schmidt variants) and various types of multi-foil optics. These systems are commonly used for X-rays. As the optimization supposes a specific optics design, the software cannot be used for a generic optics. Lopsimul draws focal image and x and y profiles. LOPSIMUL calculates FWHM, effective collecting area and other principal results.