Contents of TFCalc Web Site

TFCalc General Info

• Summary of TFCalc features
• System Requirements
• Try how it works
• License Agreement
• TFCalc Product Installation Instruction


• Latest version: TFCalc 3.6.2
• History of TFCalc enhancements (versions 3.0 to 3.4)
  • TFCalc 3.4 Changes
  • TFCalc 3.3 Changes
  • TFCalc 3.2 Changes
  • TFCalc 3.1 Changes
  • TFCalc 3.0 Changes

※ TFCalc is designed to allow for a single user or a single machine.

※ Please contact us, if you want to use TFCalc in a thinclient environment.

< Single user license > 　- It can be installed on 2 machines for only the case of using a TFCalc by the same user. 　- When multiple users want to use TFCalc, each user must purchase a separate TFCalc license.

< Single machine license > 　- When TFCalc is installed on only one machine, any users who can access it can use TFCalc on it. 　- When you want to install multiple machines, each machine must be installed with a separate TFCalc license.

TFCalc Special Featues

• Focus on special features
  • Optimization Overview
  • Needle Optimization
  • Needle/Tunneling Optimization
  • Electric Field Intensity
  • Sensitivity to Manufacturing Errors
  • Layer Sensitivity
  • Color Sensitivity
  • Biconical Transmittance
  • Optical Monitoring
  • Determining Refractive Index (N and K)
  • Material Data
    • Sopra Data

TFCalc Examples

• Sample Designs
• Animation Examples
• List of coating design examples
• Examples of thin film coatings
  • Anti-reflection filters
  • Bandpass filters
  • Beamsplitters
  • Edge filters
  • Notch (or minus) filters
  • Phase retarders
  • Reflectors
  • Color correction
  • Fabry-Perot filters

TFCalc Tutorials

• Single Layer Anti-Reflection Coating
• Anti-Reflection Coating with 2 Layer Thin Film
• Global Search to Design the V Coating
• Design a Beamsplitter