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The Mirror_toroid Component

Toroidal shape mirror (in XZ)

Identification

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• Author: Erik B Knudsen
• Origin: DTU Physics
• Date: Jul 2016

Description

This is an implementation of a toroidal mirror which may be curved in two dimensions.
To avoid solving quartic equations, the intersection is compited as a combination of
two intersections. First, the ray is intersected with a cylinder to catch (almost) the small
radius curvature. Secondly, the ray is the intersected with an ellipsoid, with the curvatures
matching that of the torus.

In the first incarnation we assume the mirror to be curving outwards (a bump).

Example: Mirror_toroid(zdepth=0.340,xwidth=0.020,radius=246.9254,radius_o=246.9254,R0=1)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
coating	str	Datafile containing either mirror material constants or reflectivity numbers.	""
zdepth	m	Length of mirror.	0.1
xwidth	m	Width of mirror.	0.01
radius	m	Curvature radius
radius_o	m	Curvature radius, outwards
R0	1	Reflectivity of mirror.	0

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Mirror_toroid.comp.

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