User Guide

The User Guide provides documentation for all of Lentil’s features and capabilities.

Getting started

• Installation
• Importing lentil and subpackages
• Resources

Fundamentals

• Introduction
• Coordinate system
• Apertures and masks
• Planes
• Representing wavefront error
• Wavefront and Field
• Numerical diffraction propagation
• Diffraction propagation with large tilts
• Segmented optical systems
• Imaging artifacts
• Image sensors
• Computational radiometry

Advanced usage

• Extending Lentil
• Optimizing Performance
• The inner-workings of Plane.freeze()
• Using Lentil with MATLAB