Coherent Optics Propagation and Modeling

Fourier optics based propagation and modeling of complex and arbitrary optical fields

This set of tools, all in base MATLAB, mainly provide the ability to describe and propagate a multitude of different distributions common in laser optics. The main use is for the modeling of coherent laser combination in regularly tiled arrays and propagation through free space. However, there is also the ability to model: arbitrary tiling, Gaussian, Hermite-Gaussian, Laguerre-Gaussian fields. Additionally there is a custom genetic algorithm (GA) that can be used to optimize or reconstruct initial fields based on simulated propagated fields or on real world camera images.

This toolbox is structured into two custom classes: beamPropagation2D and genAlgBeamProp. The former holds all of the field definition and propagation functions and the latter holding the GA functions. Each also hold basic plotting tools to quickly explore created fields.

Compatibility Note: Though it says you need 2018b onward to use this, that is mainly for small changes to function notation. I believe the last major update that is used is 2016b as local functions are used. It is not guaranteed to work but should be relatively easy to understand what is going wrong and fix.