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 22,806 times in total on PyPI, including 833 in the last 30 days. The latest version is 1.2.13, released Feb 6, 2026. It is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Version1.2.13
Downloads
22.81k
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
AuthorAndrea Bocchieri
UpdatedFeb 6, 2026

Downloads

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VersionsTotal1.*
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22.8kAll-time
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Version distribution

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

  • 01

    1.2.13

    351 downloads
    18.2%
  • 02

    1.2.14

    270 downloads
    14.0%
  • 03

    1.2.12

    131 downloads
    6.8%
  • 04

    1.2.11

    114 downloads
    5.9%
  • 05

    1.2.10

    96 downloads
    5.0%
  • 06

    1.2.9

    87 downloads
    4.5%
  • 07

    1.1.2

    72 downloads
    3.7%
  • 08

    1.2.6.dev3

    71 downloads
    3.7%
  • 09

    Other

    738 downloads
    38.2%

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