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The Mirror_oroid_othole McXtrace Component

12.7  The Mirror_toroid_pothole McXtrace Component

Toroidal shape mirror (in XZ)

Identification

  • Author: Erik B Knudsen

  • Origin: DTU Physics

  • Date: Jul 2016

Description

This is an implementation of a toroidal mirror which may be curved in two dimensions. To avoid solving quartic equations, the intersection is computed as a combination of two intersections. First, the ray is intersected with a cylinder to catch (almost) the small radius curvature. Secondly, the ray is the intersected with an ellipsoid, with the curvatures matching that of the torus.

The first incarnation (Mirror_toroid.comp) the mirror curves outwards (a bump), but this incarnation (Mirror_toroid_pothole) curves inwards (a pothole).

Example: Mirror_toroid_pothole( radius=0.1, radius_o=1000, xwidth=5e-2, zdepth=2e-1,R0=1, coating=””)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

zdepth

m

Length of mirror.

0.1

xwidth

m

Width of mirror.

0.01

radius

m

Curvature radius

radius_o

m

Curvature radius, outwards

R0

1

Reflectivity of mirror.

0

coating

str

Datafile containing either mirror material constants or reflectivity numbers.

””

Links

  • Component source code found in file Mirror_toroid_pothole.comp.


Last Modified: Monday, 05-Oct-2026 10:48:07 CEST
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