The LabCanvas Optics Table lays out optical setups on a virtual breadboard in the browser and simulates the light as you work. Place lasers and lamps, lenses, mirrors, prisms, gratings, beam splitters, polarizers and detectors, and the rays are traced live as you move the parts, with refraction and dispersion, polarization and interference.
Use it to plan or explain a setup such as an interferometer, a microscope or a spectrometer, then export it as a clean vector schematic for a paper, thesis, poster or slide. Because the rays are traced again whenever a part moves, you can see straight away how a change in the alignment changes the beam path.
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