Editing Beamline (section)

===Software for beamline modeling===
Although the design of a synchrotron radiation beamline may be seen as an application of [[X-ray optics]], there are dedicated tools for modeling the x-ray propagation down the beamline and their interaction with various components.  There are ray-tracing codes such as [http://www.esrf.eu/computing/scientific/raytracing/ Shadow] and [http://www.mcxtrace.org/ McXTrace] that treat the x-ray beam in the geometric optics limit, and then there are wave propagation software that takes into account diffraction, and the intrinsic wavelike properties of the radiation.  For the purposes of understanding full or partial coherence of the synchrotron radiation, the wave properties need to be taken into account.  The codes [https://github.com/ochubar/SRW SRW], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827221328/http://radiant.harima.riken.go.jp/spectra/ Spectra] and [https://xrt.readthedocs.io/ xrt] include this possibility, the latter code supports "hybryd" regime allowing to switch from geometric to wave approach on a given optical segment.