oasys-barc4ro 2026.7.16

X-ray Refractive Optics Library for Physical Optics

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X-ray Refractive Optics Library for Physical Optics (formerly know as barc4ro)

This library allows simulating compound refractive lenses under the projection approximation, valid for the conditions imposed by the paraxial approximation in the physical optics framework.

Documentation

https://barc4ro.readthedocs.io/

Source repository

https://github.com/oasys-kit/oasys-barc4ro

Quick-installation

barc4ro can be installed with Python 3.x:

$ python -m pip install oasys-barc4ro

References

[1] Celestre, R., Chubar, O., Roth, T., Sanchez del Rio, M. and Barrett, R. (2020). [Recent developments in x-ray lenses modelling with SRW](https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567947). Proc. SPIE 11493, Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics , 11493-17.

[2] Celestre, R., Berujon, S., Roth, T., Sanchez del Rio, M. and Barrett, R. (2020). [Modelling phase imperfections in compound refractive lenses](https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577519017235). Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 27(2), 305318.