MACOS Program Release, Version 3.31

About this technology

Overview

The Modeling and Analysis of Controlled Optical System (MAOOS) Program is a JPL developed major optical systems modeling and analysis software tool pacakge. It enables a wide range of system-level engineering modeling and analysis for large aperture, segmented space telescope systems including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), TPF, AMT, AMD, as well as advanced space interferometry systems (SIM). MACOS Version 3.31 are: a powerful system optimization facility with a set of optimization algorithms implemented for linear and nonlinear, unconstrained and constrained optical system optimizations under a variety of settings, enhanced ability to perturb optical system components individually and on subsystem level, a variety of new optical aperture types have been added, the ability to add multi-layer thin-film coatings to element surfaces in polarized ray-tracing. Major software engineering work were also performed on the MACOS program to make it more reliable, flexible and more manageable from the maintenance and development point of view.