I Software for optical simulation with interference

[Erik Ayer]

TL;DR Summary

What software do people recommend for optical simulations involving interference

I would like to simulate both double-slit and Mach-Zehnder interference, with some other common optical components such as lenses, beam splitters, mirrors, and wave plates. Is there something online for this or a program that can be downloaded and run on either Linux or Windows?

Thanks,
Erik

 

[gentzen]

Strilanc made a video using https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab.
For serious optics simulations of actual devices you could look in section Electromagnetic Simulation Software of http://emlab.utep.edu/opensource.htm (if you have too much time).

 

[Erik Ayer]

That site is really cool, thank you!