Features

GUI features

• FDTD simulations
• Raytracing
• Multilayer's optical response and fresnel coefficients
• Graphical fit of data
• Human assisted planar modes solver
• Mie theory: cross-sections calculation
• Graphical samples organizer
• For the classroom: visualisation of the ellipsometric concepts

CLI features

• FDTD simulations
• FDFD simulations (2D)
• Raytracing
• Multilayer's optical response and fresnel coefficients

Known issues

• Random crashes can occur on application closing
• Multilayers computation can be corrupt if used in a remote desktop context
• Various GUI issues on Ubuntu
• The default materials library doesn't load properly on Ubuntu

Road to 1.0

• Designing a proper materials editor
• Revamping the GUI finite-difference structures definition
• Variables support for the GUI finite-difference structures definition
• Designing proper visualization tools for FDTD fieldmaps
• Integrating polarization dependence into the raytracer
• Adding a calculation progress bar to the GUI raytracer
• Some primitives are still not part of the GUI raytracer
• Meshes and booleans are still not exposed in the GUI raytracer
• Coding a multilayer IRF and exposing it to the CLI and GUI
• Reworking and exposing to the GUI the diffractive IRF
• Coding the tangent vectors for the raytracer
• Reworking the Mie directional scattering
• Creating a near field calculation mode for the Mie tool
• Figuring out application signing on Windows
• AppImage support on Linux

Beyond

• Global optimization of the FDTD core with loop blocking (sometime in the distant future...)