Fast and comfortable GPU-accelerated wave-optical simulation for imaging properties and design of highly aspheric 3D-printed freeform microlens systems
Modern 3D-printing technologies allow for the production of very small and complex microscale optical systems,which require examination of wave-optical effects within their design process. Common optical design softwareemploys ray-tracing as their basic concept, which is not capable of fully simulating wave-optical effects. Rigorousmethods, which solve electromagnetic field equations, are very time consuming and require more proficiency ofthe users. We present an application of the Wave Propagation Method (WPM), which is able to accuratelysimulate wave-optical effects in forward direction, while providing a reasonably fast calculation time utilizingboth central- and graphics processing units (CPU and GPU) as an easy-to-use plugin for the open-source softwareITOM.
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