MIST Files

MIST (Modal Interferometer Simulation Tool) is a MATLAB(R) toolbox to 
simulate optical system in the paraxial approximation, using a modal approach.

Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Gabriele Vajente (vajente@caltech.edu)

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/optics-mist/>

G. Vajente, "Fast modal simulation of paraxial optical systems: the MIST open source toolbox"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 30, 075014 (2013)

LICENSE
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

INSTALLATION
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MIST is distributed as a source code package for MATLAB. You have downloaded a 
compressed tar file. You can expand it in every directory you want, using for 
example the unix command tar zxvf mist_(version).tar.gz where (version) is the 
version number of the MIST distribution you downloaded. This will create a 
MIST folder into the current working directory. This folder is the root of the 
MIST toolbox. You should add it to the MATLAB path:

addpath('./MIST');

To automatically add the path every time MATLAB starts, you should add an 
addpath(full-path-to-mist) command into the startup.m file which MATLAB 
reads every times it is launched.

Refer to the MATLAB documentation for a getting started guide and more
detailed information. You can access the MATLAB documentation with the 
command 'doc' and browse to the MIST Toolbox section.

REFERENCE
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If you use MIST in your own simulation work, please cite is as

G. Vajente, "Fast modal simulation of paraxial optical systems: the MIST open source toolbox"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 30, 075014 (2013)