Introduction

• Guide to the User Guide

• WaveTrain documentation and updates on the Web

• Index to all WaveTrain documents

• Index to all tempus documents

• General references

A quick tour of WaveTrain

WaveTrain step-by-step tutorials

Assembling and running a WaveTrain model - Tutorial

• Create a new WaveTrain system model

• The WaveTrain component libraries

• Copy components from one System Editor window to another

• Saving systems, opening existing systems

• Component parameters, inputs, and outputs

• Display/hide graphical elements

• Set component parameters

• Verify component parameters

• Connect WaveTrain components

• Create a new run set for the WaveTrain system

• Run the simulation

• View simulation results

• Additional tutorial topics

• Further WaveTrain details

Modeling details 

• Connecting WaveTrain components

• Physical units and nomenclature

• Spatial coordinates and direction nomenclature

• Discrete mesh specifications

• Modeling of optical systems in "object space"

• Sign and phasor conventions for tilt, focus and general OPD

• Sensor timing and triggering

• Sensor timing, CW sources and pulsed sources

• Transverse (x,y) displacement and motion (TransverseVelocity and Slew)

• How tilt is modeled

• Transverse displacement and size of propagation mesh

• Transverse displacement and size of phase screens

• Longitudinal (z) displacement and motion

• Optical propagators in WaveTrain

• Choosing mesh settings for optical propagation

• Setting up Fresnel propagations

• Using the PropagationController

• Using atmospheric turbulence models

• Atmospheric modeling using Turbtool or PropConfig

• Using atmospheric thermal blooming models

• Basic sensor modules: Targetboard, SimpleFieldSensor and Camera

• Sensor modules:  the Camera

• Spatially integrating WaveTrain sensor outputs

• Interference of polychromatic fields

• Splitting and combining optical paths

• Using Polarizers to separate light from different sources

• Zernike components

• Adaptive optics models (wavefront sensors, deformable mirrors, tilt trackers)

• How point sources are modeled

• Optically-rough reflectors, and modeling of speckle

• Components for data-type conversion

• How to use spatial filters and absorbing boundaries

• Using WaveHolder to avoid performing redundant propagations

Data entry in subsystem parameters and inputs, and in the Run Set Editor

• Introduction

• Summary of data types

• "Include" setup in Run Set

• Special constants

• C-language syntax for expressions and basic math functions

• Loop indices

• Specifying output recording

• Procedures for entering vectors, arrays and "Grids"

• Procedures for modifying vectors, arrays, and "Grids"

• The functions "gwoom" and "GridGeometry"

• Miscellaneous special functions and operators

• "Obsolete" warnings

• Status bulbs and status checking

• Miscellaneous rules and tips for Run Set and System Editors

Inspecting and post-processing WaveTrain output: *. trf files, TrfView, and Matlab

• Introduction

• Run index (run number)

• TrfView

• Loading trf data into Matlab without TrfView

• trf data structure

• Key commands for working with trf data in Matlab

Creating user-defined WaveTrain components

• Introduction

• Creating a new component by composing existing library modules

• Creating a new atomic component from a Matlab m-file (m-system)

• Creating a new atomic component - general

• How WaveTrain works at the source code level

• WaveTrain "starter systems" for constructing new atomic systems

Using WaveTrain models to gain understanding of the modeled systems

• How to set up and execute parameter studies

• Example system models

• Given a model of an adaptive optics system, obtaining comparable diffraction-limited and open loop results

• Averaging over stochastic effects