Hello @Michael Cheng ,

Thank you for creating this!

I’ve often wanted to simulate a YZ cross section of focus. Your script worked perfectly without any fiddling! Thanks for including the example file.

I did find that d1 and d2 seem to be relative to ‘best focus’. For example, when changing the ‘wave’ variable via the python script the beam shape is updated but there is no offset for chromatic focal shift.

I suspect there is a more elegant way to accomplish this, but I ended up outputting individual beam files from POP for each wavelength of interest and running them individually from your script (with the wave variable commented out). This retained the ‘global’ z position. Here is the fused image for three visible wavelengths.

Thanks again for this awesome tool.

Ps. If try and re-run the script I get a “Failed to initialize pythonnet: System.InvalidOperationException: This property must be set before runtime is initialized” error. If I restart the kernel it works fine. 

Hello @Michael Cheng,

I’ve run into an issue trying to correlate scale/units between the results I see in zemax when generating the beam file and those I get out of the YZview script.

After some trial and error, I’ve discovered that XYZ output has intensities normalized to a peak value of 1 at the nominal (z=0) position.

Ultimately, I’d like to run various beam files and directly compare the intensities. I can manually note and scale the output using the Watts/mm^2 values for each beam file. Do you have any suggestions on how to accomplish this more elegantly? 

edit: I should also add that I’ve configured the analysis to be ‘total power = 1’. I’ve confirmed that the sum of each XY image is a constant. 

Thank you,

John