PolyCAD

a powerful X-ray tracing tool for Polycapillary Optics

designed by: Dariush Hampai and Giannantonio Cibin
in collaboration with: Sultan Dabagov and Giorgio Cappuccio

PolyCAD is a CAD software designed for X-ray photon tracing in polycapillary optics.

Using the ray optics approximation in the ideal case of total external reflection, i.e., without absorption effects by the optical channel walls, this algorithm allows us to

  • simulate the passage of the X-ray beam inside the capillary channels for sources of different shapes,
  • visualize the spot images formed on a screen at different distances from the optics
  • till now the software can simulate mono-capillary and polycapillary optics with cylindrical, conical, lens and semi-lens shapes

... Work is in progress