Eye-Safety Paramters


Hello,


I want to calculate for a scanning pulsed laser parameters like peak power, power of a single pulse and average power for eye-safety purposes.


Is there a way of calculate these parameters for a particular setup using Zemax or does Zemax has sime kind of features for eye-safety calculations?



Thank you,


Narciso


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Hi Narciso, 


You've asked a good question. Generally, OpticStudio does not do much regarding time dependent calculations. But if your pulse is just a time-varying intensity profile, you ought to be able to use a ZPL macro or an API to do the calculations you need just by looping through the time steps, changing intensities, and then calculating averages, sums, etc as you need. I don't know of any current tools that exist for this sort of calculation, but if we come across any, I'll get them into this forum thread.


Best regards,


Kevin Scales

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Hi Narciso,


I was able to locate a Matlab based API that does a little bit of pulse analysis. Feel free to use it if it helps. I'm attaching a Zip file here.


Best regards,


Kevin Scales

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