Spir specifications

Applications 

• Design of transverse diode pumped system.
• Design of longitudinal diode pumped system (under certain conditions).
• Calculation of the gain distribution for amplifier with rod and slab geometries

General features

• User friendly interface
• Easy to learn
• Dedicated software
• Calculation based on Monte-Carlo method and Non-sequentiel propagation
• Results can be used under Commod Pro

Technical features

• 3D ray tracing from diode sources
• 2D energy deposition calculation
• Taking into account the Fresnel reflection reflective coating, and Lambertian diffusion of surfaces
• Complete modelisation of the pumping diode : emission spectrum, 3D divergence, power, spectral shift (due to temperature variation), ...
• Fast building of a pumping geometry by using simple basic optical elements :
  • cylinders (possibility to decompose the system in sections with specific characteristics),
  • planes,
  • arcs,
  • ellipsis and parabolas (under certain conditions)
• Possibility to modify the emission spectrum of diode
• Possibility to modify the absorption spectrum of the amplifier medium
• Parametric calculation
• Batch calculation

Results

• Real-time 2D ray tracing visualization
• Energy deposition inside the amplifier
• Energy profile inside the amplifier
• Smoothing of the results to minimize numeric variations
• Drawing to scale of the pumping system

I/O Characteristics

• . PSY ASCII file containing system information
• Binary file of the energy distribution
• ASCII file of the energy distribution to be used under Commod Pro for example)
• BMP file (for image processing).

Operating system

• Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP