Simulation System For Optical Science (SISYFOS) - tutorial

Sisyfos is a program for simulation of optical parametric frequency conversion, lasers, and beam propagation in nonlinear or turbulent media. The main part of Sisyfos is a C++ library with classes corresponding to optical components such as beam sources, lenses, mirrors, and nonlinear crystals. By combining such components it is possible to build simulation programs for a wide range of devices, including amplifiers, oscillators, and harmonic generators. This report gives an introduction to Sisyfos by guiding the reader through a sequence of example programs of gradually increasing complexity. The example programs are an essential part of the tutorial, and a reader cannot expect to learn Sisyfos thoroughly without working with the examples.