Class List

Here are the classes, structs, unions and interfaces with brief descriptions:

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▼NVirtualLab
▼NProgramming
CVL_Detectors	This class provides methods for evaluating fields
CVL_Fields	This class provides methods for manipulations, evaluations and creation of harmonic fields and fields sets
CVL_Files	This class provides methods for the import and export of fields to bitmaps, text files, or bitmap animations and access to the Microsoft Windows file system
CVL_GUI	This class provides methods for interacting with the VirtualLab main window
CVL_Math	This class provides various mathematical functions
CVL_OpticalSetups	This class provides methods for changing parameters of an Optical Setup (if you want to write your own parameter variation) and for working with Parameter Runs (if you want to vary parameters this way)
CVL_Propagations	This class provides methods for propagating a field through the free space or through components
CVL_Strings	This class provides methods for converting VirtualLab objects to a string
CVL_Structures	This class provides methods for accessing optical interfaces, materials, media, stacks as well as Boundary Responses
▼NVirtualLabAPI
▼NCore
►NBasicFunctions
CFileHandlingSupport	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class providing support methods for loading & importing of files
►NCommon
CDocumentHistory< T >	This generic class provides access to recently used documents
CGlobalOptions	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class stores all properties which can be set in the Global Options dialog
CIActiveDocumentHistory	Interface providing access to documents in current VirtualLab session.
CIDataDisplay	Interface providing methods to add documents or messages to FormMain.
CIDocument	Interface implemented by all VirtualLab documents.
►NExportImport
CImportSupportFunctions	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Provides static import functions
CTextWriterFileHandler	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for writing text to a file in an optimized way. A buffer is used to reduce file accesses, which speeds up the text writing
►NFieldRepresentations
CAdditionalCAImportParams	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Struct containing additional parameters for Import of ComplexAmplitude
CASCIIParam	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Structure that contains parameters for ASCII Export
CChromaticFieldsSet	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for a two-dimensional Chromatic Fields Set
CChromaticFieldsSet_1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for a one-dimensional Chromatic Fields Set
CChromaticFieldsSetBase	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Abstract base class for a Chromatic Fields Set (can be 1D or 2D)
CComplexAmplitude	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class represents a complex amplitude of a wave (without time depending part) in a plane or a complex transmission function. Both X and Y field components are stored. In general all functions are applied to both components. The ComplexAmplitude class is used to represent globally polarized fields and transmissions, too. The ComplexAmplitude class contains one or two ComplexField as mathematical representations for complex fields. See manual for details of physical interpretation. The ComplexAmplitude class can contain some additional information about the radius (distance from the origin) of a spherical phase factor. Using this information field may contain a spherical phase factor that is undersampled. If the radius of the spherical phase factor is known, the whole complex amplitude at every point can be reconstructed. The radius of the spherical phase factor helps to reduce the number of sampling points. Functions that use the ComplexAmplitude class have to take into account this spherical phase information to avoid numerical errors. Operators ( \(a+b\), \(a-b\), \(a*b\) and \(a/b\)) can be used. Passing \(a\) or \(b\) as Complex is supported. \(a^b\) can be applied for pointwise power function: \(a[x,y] ^ b\) \(b\) must be Complex. Operator \(a|b\) is used for calculation of inner product of two ComplexAmplitudes: \(a|b=\sum _{j=0}^{m}\sum _{i=0}^{n}a_{{i,j}}b_{{i,j}^{\star}}\) ( \(z^{\star}\) means conjugation of complex number.)
CComplexAmplitudeInterpolation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class contains static member functions for interpolating a complex amplitude to another sampling grid
CComplexAmplitudePointInterpolation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. ComplexAmplitudePointInterpolation is a class with static members that are able to interpolate pointwise between different sampling points of a complex amplitude. The point to interpolate is specified in physical coordinates. Additionally for most interpolation methods a non-static optimized version is supported. These functions are optimized for an interpolation on an equidistant grid. Different interpolation methods are supported. For more information see [Lehmann1999]
CComplexAmplitudeView	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which combines a complex amplitude with view settings
CHarmonicFieldBase	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Base class for Harmonic Fields and Harmonic Fields Sets
CHarmonicFieldMode	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class to represent a harmonic field mode
CHarmonicFieldsSet	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class containing a set of harmonic fields (i.e. of instances of class ComplexAmplitude)
CHarmonicFieldsSetEvaluation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Evaluation functions for HarmonicFieldSet objects
CHarmonicFieldsSetView	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which combines a harmonic fields set with view settings
CImportExport	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Collection of static support functions for export and import of data fields
CRigorousSimulationResult1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for storing the results of rigorous calculations for which there is no modulation in y-direction. In this case the result is a line of orders. For each order the efficiency and Rayleigh coefficients are stored
CTransformations	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Fourier transformations on various representations of fields
CWaveParameters	Contains wave parameters used in ComplexAmplitude if WaveParameters are used
►NFreeSpacePropagation
CAutomaticParaxialPropagation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class containing static functions for automatic propagation of ComplexAmplitude
CElementaryFieldScalingPropagationOperators	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class contains a number of static member functions performing well-known elementary wave propagation operators. In difference to the ElementaryPropagationOperators class all functions change number of sampling points and the sampling distance automatically the number of sampling points and the sampling distance to avoid numerical errors. Additionally some functions are provided that can estimate the necessary number of sampling points and the sampling distance to avoid numerical errors
CElementaryPropagationOperators	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class contains a number of static member functions performing well-known elementary wave propagation operators. Every function warns for numerical problems that can occur during propagation. Additionally some functions are supported that can estimate numerical errors without performing a propagation
►NFunctions
CSpecialFunctions	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class containing special (named) functions like the Laguerre, Bessel, Legendre, ... functions. The methods are just static methods, they are not derived from BaseFunction class
►NLightPath
CDetectorResultObject	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class representing a the result of a detector. The result can be either a list of physical values or a single physical value, a VirtualLab document type, or a special object combining field data and view properties (ComplexAmplitudeView or HarmonicFieldsSetView)
►NMaterials
CMaterial	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. There are different material classes possible that can contain material properties with different definition. All material classes have to have this interface to access the material properties
►NNumerics
►NRegion1D
CComposedRegion1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Public class which defines a region composed by several 1D subregions. These subregions are composed using logical operations like AND, OR, XOR, DIFF
CIntervalRegion	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for a simple, real valued coordinate interval, representing a 1D region
CRegion1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class that describes a 1D region
CSampledRegion1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which describes a region via sampled data. A data point marks its own local interval as being 'inside' if its value is unequal zero
►NRegion2D
CComposedRegion2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Public class which defines a region composed by several subregions. These subregions are composed using logical operations like AND, OR, XOR, DIFF. Please note: The axis aligned bounding box cannot be determined exactly in every case
CElementaryRegion2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Base class for all Region2D derived classes which are not composed
CEllipticRegion	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which describes an elliptic region which may be situated at an arbitrary center and which may be rotated by an arbitrary angle
CRectangularRegion	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which describes a rectangular region which may be situated at an arbitrary center and which may be rotated by an arbitrary angle
CRegion2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class that describes a 2D region
CSampledRegion2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which describes a region via sampled data. A data point marks its own small rectangular region as being 'inside' if its value is unequal zero
CSimplePolygon	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Public class which defines a simple polygon (defined by an array of vertices). 'Simple' means, that there are no intersections of the vertices
CAxisRotationSequence	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for describing a sequence of rotations about coordinate axes
CCartesianCoordinateSystem	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for right-handed Cartesian coordinate systems
CCFieldDerivative1DReal	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class derived from ComplexField, designed especially for one dimensional, real valued data
CColorMapping	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Used to describe the color mapping between a ComplexAmplitude and a bitmap. Colors from StartColor to EndColor are linearly mapped to double values from StartValue to EndValue. Optional a third color can be inserted in the middle. All parameters are stored separately for each FieldQuantity
CComplex	This struct holds a complex number. Operators ( \(a+b\), \(a-b\), \(a*b\), \(a/b\) and \(a^b\)) can be used. Passing \(a\) or \(b\) as double is supported
CComplexField	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class is a matrix of complex values. If no imaginary part is needed (real valued fields) one can set a special flag that indicates a real valued field (ComplexField with imaginary part zero). This different internal representations are used to optimize the computer memory and computational time. Operators ( \(a+b\), \(a-b\), \(a*b\) and \(a/b\)) can be used. Passing \(a\) or \(b\) as Complex or double is supported (Except of \(/\), only \(b\) may be a scalar). Operator \(a|b\) is used for calculation of inner product of two ComplexFields: \(a|b=\sum _{j=0}^{m}\sum _{i=0}^{n}a_{{i,j}}b_{{i,j}^{\star}}\) ( \(z^{\star}\) means conjugation of complex number.). IsComplex property is always taken from first operand
CComplexField1DArray	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class to encapsulate an array of objects of type ComplexFieldDerivative1D. It also ensures that all entries are either complex or real valued
CComplexFieldArray	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class to encapsulate an array of objects of type ComplexField
CComplexFieldDerivative1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class derived from ComplexField, designed especially for one dimensional data
CComplexFieldInterpolation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class contains static member function to interpolate a ComplexField to another sampling grid
CComplexFieldPointInterpolation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. ComplexFieldPointInterpolation is a class with static members that are able to interpolated pointwise between different sampling points of a ComplexField. Additionally a non static-optimized version is supported for most interpolation methods. These functions are optimized for an interpolation on an equidistant grid. Different interpolation methods are supported. For more information see [Lehmann1999]
CCoordinateSystemBaseVectors	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for the base vectors of a Cartesian coordinate system. This kind of triple vector is also called "trihedron"
CCoordinateTransformations	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Provides static conversion functions from one coordinate system to another one, among others
CDataArray1D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for objects that store data in C^N which are equidistant or non equidistant distributed in R^1
CDataArray2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for objects that store gridded data in C^N which are equidistant or non equidistant distributed in R^2
CDataArrayBase	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Abstract class for storing a map R^M → C^N
CDataArrayGridLess	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for objects that store data in C^N which are arbitrarily distributed (i.e. not on a grid) in ℝ^M
CDirectionByDirectionAngles	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining directions by direction angles
CDirectionByRotationMatrix	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining directions by applying a rotation matrix to a starting vector
CDirectionByRotationSequence	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining directions by applying a sequence of axis rotations to a starting vector
CEulerAnglesSet	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Struct for Euler angles, following the Z-X'-Z'-convention
CExtrapolationInfo	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class which holds information about extrapolation of 1D and 2D data with a finite domain of definition. The extrapolation information tells how to operate outside of the definition domain
CIOrientationDefinition	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Interface to be implemented by all classes that describe a rotation definition
CIProvidesPositioningReferences	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Interface to be implemented by all classes that contain coordinate systems that can serve as positioning references
CIRegion1D2D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Interface to connect 1D and 2D regions
CMathFunctions	This class contains various mathematical functions and constants
CMatrix3x3C	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class defines a 3x3 Matrix of complex numbers. Operators ( \(a+b\), \(a-b\)). Operator ( \(a*b\)) supports \(b\) as complex or Vector3C as well
CMatrix3x3D	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class defines a 3x3 Matrix of double numbers. Operators ( \(a+b\), \(a-b\)). Operator ( \(a*b\)) supports \(b\) as double or VectorD as well
COrientationByCartesianAngles	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining orientations by Cartesian angles, i.e. the angles between the projection of the direction to be defined onto the x-z-plane and the z-axis (alpha), and between the projection of the direction to be defined onto the y-z-plane and the z-axis (beta)
COrientationByDirectionAngles	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining orientations by direction angles, i.e. the angles between the direction to be defined and each of the Cartesian axis respectively
COrientationByEulerAngles	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining orientations by Euler angles
COrientationByMatrix	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining orientations via rotation matrix
COrientationBySphereAngles	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. A class for defining orientations by sphere angles
COrientationDefinitionBase	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Base for all classes that describe a rotation definition
COrientedPlane	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for objects that describe planes with a right-hand orientation. Data are stored in parametrized form, i.e. as one point and two vectors. The third base vector gives the orientated normal vector
CPhysicalUnit	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Association between unit string and corresponding factor
CPhysicalValue	class for a double value with a physical unit
CPhysicalValueBase	Base class for a complex or double value with a physical unit
CPhysicalValuePair	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for a pair of physical values
CPhysicalValueRange	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for a range of physical values
CPosition	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class to describe a position object, that is a point in R^3, with reference information added
CPositionedLine	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for objects that describe positioned lines in space
CSamplingParameters	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class contains parameters for proper sampling of a complex field
CSimpleRotation	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class for describing a rotation about one of the coordinate axes or by a certain predefined angle
CTransformations	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Contains static functions that perform transformations of one or two ComplexField like Fourier Transform of Convolution
CVector	This struct defines a two-dimensional vector of integer numbers. Operators \(a+b\), \(a-b\) and \(a|b\) (Scalar product) can be used. One operand on \(a*b\) and \(a/b\) can be an integer too. Implicit casting to System.Drawing.Point and System.Drawing.Size is supported.
CVector3C	This class defines 3-dimensional vectors of complex numbers. The class saves the x,y and z coordinates
CVector3D	This struct defines a three dimensional vector of double numbers. Operators \(a+b\), \(a-b\) and \(a|b\) (Scalar product) can be used. Second operand on \(a*b\), \(a/b\) and \(a^b\) (applied separate on components) can be a double too
CVectorB	This struct defines a two-dimensional vector of boolean values
CVectorC	This struct defines a two-dimensional vector of complex numbers. Operators \(a+b\), \(a-b\) and \(a|b\) (Scalar product) can be used. One operand on \(a*b\), \(a/b\) (applied separate on components) can also be a Complex. Implicit casting from Vector is supported.
CVectorD	This struct defines a two-dimensional vector of double numbers. Operators \(a+b\), \(a-b\) and \(a|b\) (Scalar product) can be used. One operand on \(a*b\), \(a/b\) (applied separate on components) can be also a double. It is also possible to raise a VectorD to a given power ( \(a^b\)). Implicit casting from Vector is supported
CVectorL	This struct defines a two-dimensional vector of long numbers. Operators \(a+b\), \(a-b\) and \(a|b\) (Scalar product) can be used. One operand on \(a*b\) and \(a/b\) can be an long too.
►NOpticalSystems
CBasicParameter	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. The parameter which holds the data for the numerical setup of light sources
CHomogeneousMedium	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class representing a homogeneous medium
COpticalMedium	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Base class for every class that represents a modulated or non-modulated refractive index distribution between two surfaces
►NProjectionAlgorithms
CConstraint	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Projection operator for constraint on a ComplexField object
CConstraintDomain	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Collection of information for the transmission or signal domain
CPropagationOperator	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Propagation operator for usage in projection algorithms
►NRigorousAnalysis
COrderInfo	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class to store the results of a single order as obtained by rigorous simulations: order number, Rayleigh coefficients, diffraction efficiency
►NStandardTransmissionDesign
CConstraintSpecification	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. This class stores the specification of all constraints applied during an IFTA optimization
CIterationDataOutput	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Delegates and parameters to be used for visualizing progress during iteration, for logging merit functions, and for creating animations
►NSupportFunctions
CDataArrayConversions	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Support class containing various conversions between numerical data arrays or data array based documents and other documents
CDataArrayManipulations	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Support class containing the manipulations for numerical data arrays
►NTransitionPointLayers
CTransitionPointLayersVisualizationSupport	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Static support functions to convert a Transition Point Layers object into a Data Array
▼NWyrowski
▼NInfrastructure
►NSupport
CFileSystemSupport	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Static class to support access to the file system and handling of file names
CMathSupport	This class contains various mathematical functions and constants
CStringSupport	This class is subject to change. Programs using this class may require changes with a new version of VirtualLab. Class containing static methods to create strings formatted in a special way