Mueller Calculus Spectrometric Simulations of Thermal Lensing

Abstract

A commercially available microcomputer-based simulation program, augmented with more than 130 custom-programmed component blocks, has been shown to allow the seamless integration of both optical and signal processing components on a computer screen worksheet. The libraries of custom component blocks allow scientific block diagrams, representing a variety of spectrometric techniques, to be “brought to life” as functional technique simulations. The libraries of blocks are applied to the qualitative and quantitative modeling of several published thermal lensing instruments, with the achievement of excellent results.