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Runsheet
This is a facility for planning coating production that consists of a machine
configuration editor and a run sheet generator. A machine configuration stores details of
a coating machine, its sources and their tooling factors, and its monitoring systems. With
the run sheet generator, the user can plan the monitoring of a coating design for a given
machine configuration. Both optical and crystal monitoring are included as well as
advanced features such as dynamic tooling factors and system bandwidth. (More Information...)
Monitorlink
Monitorlink provides extra software for connecting Runsheet to a deposition controller.
A stand-alone program communicates directly with the controller and an extension to
Runsheet gives it the ability to generate and edit deposition programs. (More Information...)
vStack
Want to optimize a set of non-parallel coatings for a set of overall requirements? Need
to check the performance of a coated prism? vStack is a tool for the calculation and
optimization of such systems. vStack also calculates the effect of skewed light beams in
these systems. When the beam is skewed, some light originally with p-polarization will
emerge from the system with s-polarization, and some originally s-polarized light will
emerge with p-polarization. We call this polarization leakage. vStack calculates
the magnitude of this leakage and provides a Delta value for the leakage component. (More Information...)
DWDM Assistant
Designing multiple-cavity filters? The DWDM Assistant automatically designs a set of
multiple-cavity filters to meet your specifications. Filter designs may be sorted
according to criteria such as total thickness and estimated deposition time. Designs can
be opened for detailed analysis. (More Information...)
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Simulator
How difficult is it to make a given filter? Simulator helps to answer
that question. Tolerance assessment in optical coating production is a real problem. There is no good,
universal, analytical technique. Errors, a simple tool in the Core Essential Macleod,
assumes independent random thickness errors in all layers and can quickly show that
independent control demands impossible accuracies in many coatings that can actually be
constructed using other methods. In fact, tolerances and effects of errors depend strongly
on the control technique. Simulator solves the tolerancing problem by extending the Monte
Carlo approach of Errors into a realistic model of the control process.
Using a control plan created by Runsheet, Simulator models the control of deposition,
introducing both random and systematic effects such as noise on the signal, tooling factor
variation, packing density errors, and so on, and shows the effect that these parameters
have on the final simulated production coatings.
Simulator answers much more than simple monitoring questions. All kinds of other
parameters associated with the coating system can be translated into the parameters of the
model and their effect examined. (More Information...)
Function
Manipulating the results of thin film calculations can be exceedingly tedious. For
example, the response of a coating illuminated by a 5000K black body compares the integral
of performance times black body output with the integral of the black body alone. The
bewildering array of color coordinate systems leads to still greater complexity. Five of
these are built into the Essential Macleod but there are many others. An enormously large
number of manipulations of the normal reflectance, transmittance, or phase results is
often required. Spreadsheets are not the answer because they do not easily handle
interpolation and also have difficulty processing differing numbers of data sets, but
Function does all that completely automatically. Operations in a simple macro language
(editor and syntax checker built-in) allow identical calculations to be repeated over and
over again. (More Information...)
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