finesse.components.telescope.Telescope

Overview

class finesse.components.telescope.Telescope(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: Connector

This component represents a perfectly matching and adapting telescope. It will not change the beam parameter on transmission of the component and any field coming in will be transmitted to the other side into the other beam parameter. This should be used in cases when you want to connect to optical systems but do not want to design a complicated optical telescope system to mode-match them both, or in cases where one system has a changing parameter but you don’t care about the details of the telescope.

No beam is traced through the telescope so you must specify a beam parameter or a cavity on both sides of the telescope. If not, a tracing error will occur.

Currently no losses, mismatch, or misalignments can be induced at this telescope. There is no accumulated Gouy phase or plane-wave propagation phase.

Parameters

namestr

Name of newly created telescope