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WaveTrain Tutorial

The WaveTrain Hands-On Workshop is perhaps the best stand-alone reference for learning how to use WaveTrain. Using this tutorial, experienced Windows users should be able to go through the process of installing WaveTrain, building and manipulating WaveTrain models, and generating and analyzing results. Even without access to the WaveTrain software, readers of the briefing will be able to grasp the fundamental concepts behind WaveTrain and begin to understand its applications. To go through the entire workshop on your own, you will need the following:

These materials are provided for general use and may be freely copied and disseminated. However, if these materials or information derived directly from them are used in other bodies of work, MZA expects proper attribution. The following information can be used for citations:

Title: WaveTrain Version 2007B Hands-On Workshop
Authors: Robert W. Praus, II, Steve C. Coy, & Keith Beardmore
Organization: MZA Associates Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Publication: Briefing materials published at http://www.mza.com
Date: January 17, 2008

The Tutorial is Available in the Following Formats:

PowerPoint format. When viewing PPT files in a web-browser, you may wish to left-click on the page or use the "Page Down" key to properly advance through the presentation and view the animations. Using the scroll bar will advance directly to the next slide while skipping animation stages. You can click directly on these links to view the documents in this frame or use the options appearing when you right-click to view the documents in a separate window or download the individual files.

PDF format. You can click directly on these links to view the documents in this frame or use the options appearing when you right-click to view the documents in a separate window or download the individual files.

Compressed download (~7MB). Click on this link to download a compressed file which has PowerPoint and PDF files, supporting Matlab script files, and animations generated during post-processing of the examples.

Scripts download (~4 KB). Click on this link to download a very small compressed file which contains the supporting Matlab script files.

Short Course on Modeling and Simulation of Beam Control Systems

On October 18, 2004 MZA presented a short course on Modeling and Simulation of Beam Control Systems at the Directed Energy Professional Society's (DEPS) Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium in Rockville, Maryland. Sixteen people attended the course and we received largely positive feedback on the presentation. The course covered a broad range of foundational, numerical, and practical aspects of constructing and analyzing computer simulations of Beam Control Systems (BCS). Of particular interest to wave optics simulationists is a rigorous development of sampling requirements in Parts 2 and 3. The short course materials can be viewed or downloaded using the links below.

These materials are provided for general use and may be freely copied and disseminated. However, if these materials or information derived directly from them are used in other bodies of work, MZA expects proper attribution. The following information can be used for citations:

Title: Modeling and Simulation of Beam Control Systems
Authors: Steve C. Coy, Robert W. Praus, II, Boris Venet, & Justin Mansell
Organization: MZA Associates Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
Publication: Short Course presented at the Seventh Annual Directed Energy Symposium in Rockville, MD
Date: October 18, 2004

PowerPoint Format

When viewing PPT files in a web-browser, you may wish to left-click on the page or use the "Page Down" key to properly advance through the presentation and view the animations. Using the scroll bar will advance directly to the next slide while skipping animation stages. You can click directly on these links to view the documents in this frame or use the options appearing when you right-click to view the documents in a separate window or download the individual files.

Compressed Downloads

Click on these links to download the compressed files.