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Gas cell

Draws a gas-cell housing for laboratory context, without any optical effect on the beam.

Open in the canvas →

A live trace, not a picture of one — but this preview is not interactive. Open it in the canvas to move things, change parameters, and save or export your own version.

In the real world

A gas cell contains a gas along an optical path. Its physical behavior depends on the gas, pressure, path length, and windows. A housing may also provide connections for gas flow or for a fiber passing through the cell.

In OpticalSetup

The gas cell is deliberately diagram-only. Set its dimensions, optional windows, extension side, gas-port appearance, and transparency to show the hardware context. The transparency control changes the drawing, not optical transmission.

The example sends a beam through the housing. Toggle its windows or change its appearance and the traced path stays the same. A fiber drawn through a gas cell remains an independent fiber path; the housing does not bind to it or change its propagation settings.

Simplified vs. reality

No pressure, gas absorption, nonlinear response, window refraction, or flow is calculated. The housing must not be interpreted as a gas-filled-fiber or spectroscopy solver.

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