User Manual

• Basics of iactsim
  • Build an optical system
    • Defining surfaces
    • Define a mirror
    • Define a sensitive surface
    • Instantiate the optical system
    • Understanding curvature and “front/back” convention
    • Advanced surface optical properties definition
    • Visualize the geometry
    • Mirror segmentation
      • Re-initialize the visualizer
  • Set up the telescope for ray-tracing
    • Reference systems
    • Ray-tracing example: visualize spot diagrams
      • On-axis photon source
    • Run the ray-tracing
      • Internal GPU Arrays
      • Visualize detected photon position
    • Visualize ray-tracing
  • Defining a custom pixel module with the GenericFlatModule class
    • Key concepts
      • How to define a GenericFlatModule object
      • Integrate it in the optical system
      • Check the camera layout
    • Visualize detected photons
    • Multiple modules and pixel ID requirements
  • Camera simulation
    • Get input for the camera simulation
    • Visualize camera images
    • Define a SiPM camera
    • Define trigger and sampling logic
    • Defining Trigger and Sampling Logic
      • Inheriting from CherenkovSiPMCamera
      • Accessing the signals
    • Assign the camera to the telescope
      • SiPM properties
    • Simulate camera response
      • Compare input and output
      • Inspect waveforms
      • Simulate camera response directly using trace_photons()
      • Inspect performance
        • Telescope report
        • Camera report
    • Visualize images
    • Pixel efficiency
    • Pixel reflectance