Package: xrt
Package xrt is a python software library for ray tracing and wave propagation
in x-ray regime. It is primarily meant for modeling synchrotron sources,
beamlines and beamline elements. Includes a GUI for creating a beamline and
interactively viewing it in 3D.Features of xrtRays and waves. Classical ray tracing and wave propagation via Kirchhoff
integrals, also freely intermixed. No further approximations, such as thin
lens or paraxial. The optical surfaces may have figure errors, analytical or
measured. In wave propagation, partially coherent radiation is treated by
incoherent addition of coherently diffracted fields generated per electron.
Propagation of _individual_ coherent source modes is possible as waves,
hybrid waves (i.e. partially as rays and then as waves) and only rays.Publication quality graphics. 1D and 2D position histograms aresimultaneouslycoded by hue and brightness. Typically, colors represent
energy and brightness represents beam intensity. The user may select other
quantities to be encoded by colors: angular and positional distributions,
various polarization properties, beam categories, number of reflections,
incidence angle etc. Brightness can also encode partial flux for a selected
polarization and incident or absorbed power. Publication quality plots are
provided by matplotlib with image formats PNG, PostScript, PDF and SVG.Unlimited number of rays. The colored histograms arecumulative. The
accumulation can be stopped and resumed.Parallel execution. xrt can be run in parallel in several threads or
processes (can be opted), which accelerates the execution on multi-core
computers. Alternatively, xrt can use the power of GPUs via OpenCL for
running special tasks such as the calculation of an undulator source or
performing wave propagation.Scripting in Python. xrt can be run within Python scripts to generate a
series of images under changing geometrical or physical parameters. The image
brightness and 1D histograms can be normalized to the global maximum
throughout the series.Synchrotron sources. Bending magnet, wiggler, undulator and elliptic
undulator are calculated internally within xrt. Please look the section
“Comparison of synchrotron source codes” for the comparison other popular
codes. If the photon source is one of the synchrotron sources, the total flux
in the beam is reported not just in number of rays but in physical units of
ph/s. The total power or absorbed power can be opted instead of flux and is
reported in W. The power density can be visualized by isolines. The magnetic
gap of undulators can be tapered. Undulators can be calculated in near field.
Custom magnetic field is also possible. Undulators can be calculated on GPU,
with a high gain in computation speed, which is important for tapering and
near field calculations.Shapes. There are several predefined shapes of optical elements implemented
as python classes. The python inheritance mechanism simplifies creation of
other shapes: the user specifies methods for surface height and surface
normal. The surface and the normal are defined either in local Cartesian
coordinates or in user-defined parametric coordinates. Parametric
representation enables closed shapes such as capillaries or wave guides. It
also enables exact solutions for complex shapes (e.g. a logarithmic spiral or
an ellipsoid) without any expansion. The methods of finding the intersections
of rays with the surface are very robust and can cope with pathological cases
such as sharp surface kinks. Notice that the search for intersection points
does not involve any approximation and has only numerical inaccuracy which is
set by default as 1 fm. Any surface can be combined with a (differently and
variably oriented) crystal structure and/or (variable) grating vector.
Surfaces can be faceted.Energy dispersive elements. Implemented are crystals in dynamical
diffraction, gratings (also with efficiency calculations), Fresnel zone
plates, Bragg-Fresnel optics and multilayers in dynamical diffraction.
Crystals can work in Bragg or Laue cases, in reflection or in transmission.
The two-field polarization phenomena are fully preserved, also within the
Darwin diffraction plateau, thus enabling the ray tracing of crystal-based
phase retarders.Materials. The material properties are incorporated using three different
tabulations of the scattering factors, with differently wide and differently
dense energy meshes. Refractive index and absorption coefficient are
calculated from the scattering factors. Two-surface bodies, such as plates or
refractive lenses, are treated with both refraction and absorption.Multiple reflections. xrt can trace multiple reflections in a single
optical element. This is useful, for example in ‘whispering gallery’ optics
or in Montel or Wolter mirrors.Non-sequential optics. xrt can trace non-sequential optics where different
parts of the incoming beam meet different surfaces. Examples of such optics
are poly-capillaries and Wolter mirrors.Singular optics. xrt correctly propagates vortex beams, which can be used
for studying the creation of vortex beams by transmissive or reflective
optics.Global coordinate system. The optical elements are positioned in a global
coordinate system. This is convenient for modeling a real synchrotron
beamline. The coordinates in this system can be directly taken from a CAD
library. The optical surfaces are defined in their local systems for the
user’s convenience.Beam categories. xrt discriminates rays by several categories:good,out,overanddead. This distinction simplifies the adjustment of
entrance and exit slits. An alarm is triggered if the fraction of dead rays
exceeds a specified level.Portability. xrt runs on Windows and Unix-like platforms, wherever you can
run python.Examples. xrt comes with many examples; see the galleries, the links are at
the top bar.xrtQook – a GUI for creating scriptsThe main interface to xrt is through a python script. Many examples of such
scripts can be found in the supplied folders ‘examples’ and ‘tests’. The script
imports the modules of xrt, instantiates beamline parts, such as synchrotron or
geometric sources, various optical elements, apertures and screens, specifies
required materials for reflection, refraction or diffraction, defines plots and
sets job parameters.The Qt tool xrtQook takes these ingredients as GUI elements and prepares a
ready to use script that can be run within the tool itself or in an external
Python context. xrtQook has a parallelly updated help panel that provides a
complete list of parameters for the used objects. xrtQook writes/reads the
recipes of beamlines into/from xml files.xrtGlow – an interactive 3D beamline viewerThe beamline created in xrtQook can be interactively viewed in an OpenGL based
widget xrtGlow. It visualizes beams, footprints, surfaces, apertures and
screens. The brightness represents intensity and the color represents an
auxiliary user-selected distribution, typically energy. A virtual screen can be
put at any position and dragged by mouse with simultaneous observation of the
beam distribution on it.The primary purpose of xrtGlow is to demonstrate the alignment correctness
given the fact that xrtQook can automatically calculate several positional and
angular parameters.Dependenciesnumpy, scipy and matplotlib are required. If you use OpenCL for calculations on
GPU or CPU, you need AMD/NVIDIA drivers,Intel CPU only OpenCL runtime(these are search key words), pytools and pyopencl. PyQt4 or PyQt5 are needed
for xrtQook. Spyder (as library of Spyder IDE) is highly recommended for nicer
view of xrtQook. OpenGL is required for xrtGlow.Get xrtxrt is available as source distribution frompypi.python.organd fromGitHub. The distribution archive also includes tests
and examples. The complete documentation is available online atRead the Docsand offline aszip file at GitHub.Get helpFor getting help and/or reporting a bug please useGitHub xrt Issues.