LASCAD has become an industry-leading software package for LASER Cavity Analysis and Design.

LASCAD provides a unique combination of simulation tools:

• Thermal and Structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of thermal effects in laser crystals.
• Focal or Afocal System design
• ABCD Gaussian Beam Propagation taking into account thermal lensing, gain guiding etc.
• Dynamic Analysis of Multimode and Q-switch operation (DMA).
• 3D Wave Optics Beam Propagation Code including diffraction, gain saturation etc.

Integration of these modules into one program package makes LASCAD a versatile instrument to model laser cavities, and to solve the problems laser engineers are confronted with. LASCAD especially provides the following computational capabilities:

• Analysis of the 3-D nonlinear interaction of thermal and optical fields, commonly known as thermal lensing effect, which is one of the key problems in solid-state laser design.
• Computation of efficiency and power output.
• Modelling of multimode competition, beam profile, and beam quality.
• Ray Splitting.
• Computation of pulse shape and pulse energy for Q-switch operation.
• Numerical Eigenmode Analysis.
• Beam Propagation outside the laser cavity.

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