paos

PAOS, the Physical Optics Simulator, is a fast, modern, and reliable Python package for Physical Optics studies. It implements Physical Optics Propagation in Fresnel approximation and paraxial ray tracing to analyze complex waveform propagation through both generic and off-axes optical systems.

paos has been downloaded 24,098 times in total on PyPI, including 683 in the last 30 days. The latest version is 1.2.14, released Aug 6, 2026. It is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Version1.2.14
Downloads
24.10k
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
AuthorAndrea Bocchieri
UpdatedAug 6, 2026

Downloads

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24.1kAll-time
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Version distribution

Share of downloads by released version. Computed over the last quarter.

  • 01

    1.2.14

    499 downloads
    23.3%
  • 02

    1.2.13

    190 downloads
    8.9%
  • 03

    1.2.12

    108 downloads
    5.0%
  • 04

    1.2.11

    100 downloads
    4.7%
  • 05

    1.2.10

    91 downloads
    4.2%
  • 06

    1.2.9

    79 downloads
    3.7%
  • 07

    1.2.5.post0

    74 downloads
    3.4%
  • 08

    1.2.7

    73 downloads
    3.4%
  • 09

    Other

    931 downloads
    43.4%

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