Optics Python Packages

lenses

A python lens library for manipulating deeply nested immutable structures

raysect

The main source repository for the Raysect project.

poppy

Physical Optics Propagation in Python

fdtd

A 3D electromagnetic FDTD simulator written in Python with optional GPU support

optiland

Comprehensive optical design, optimization, and analysis in Python, including GPU-accelerated and differentiable ray tracing via PyTorch.

legend-pygeom-optics

Optical properties for the LEGEND experiment and Geant4 simulations

generaltmm

General 4×4 transfer-matrix method (TMM) for optical simulations of isotropic and anisotropic multilayer structures. C++ core with Python bindings.

axiprop

simple-to-use optical propagation tool

stpsf

Space Telescope PSF Simulation Tool

deeptrack

DeepTrack2 is a modular Python library for generating, manipulating, and analyzing image data pipelines for machine learning and experimental imaging.

slmsuite

Python package for high-performance spatial light modulator (SLM) control and holography. Supports features from aberration-corrected 3D point clouds to automated Fourier-domain calibrations.

lightpipes

LightPipes for Python, "Pure Python version"

omc3

An accelerator physics tools package for the OMC team at CERN.

maxwellbloch

A Python package for solving the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations describing the nonlinear propagation of near-resonant light through thermal quantised systems such as atomic vapours.

webbpsf

James Webb Space Telescope PSF simulation tool

waveorder

Wave optical models and inverse algorithms for label-agnostic imaging of density & orientation.

clumppy

Clustering algorithms

optika

A Python library for simulating optical systems, similar to Zemax

meent

Electromagnetic simulation (RCWA) & optimization package in Python

optics-functions

Calculate optics parameters from TWISS outputs.

zospy

Wrapper around the Zemax OpticStudio API. Provides a more pythonic and intuitive way to interact with the ZOS-API through python using a .NET connection.

torchoptics

Python library for differentiable Fourier optics simulations with PyTorch.

lentil

Heart-healthy physical optics

pygator

Python utilities for Gaussian optics — beam profiling, live Gaussian fitting, and camera-based diagnostics.