Mirror tunnel in sequential mode

  • 2 March 2021
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Greetings community.


 


I am looking to model the light propagation inside a rectangular mirror tunnel. I am interested in using it as an imaging device, under specific constraints, so I will know that the rays will always enter on one side and exit out the other, after a single reflection inside.


Is this possible to accomplish in sequential mode? So far I have been trying to build the tunnel using folding mirrors, but I can not deal with the decentering. Do you need to introduce a coordinate break for every one of the four mirrors?


I have seen implementations of this tunnel in non-sequential mode, bud my license is limited for this.


 


Thanks very much.


 


John (Posting from Michael's account)


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Hi John


You can build a rectangular mirror tunnel in sequential mode, but rays will have to hit each mirror in sequence. So I am not sure this would be helpful. I have attached an example.


Sandrine

Userlevel 7
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I would use hybrid mode NSC for the tunnel mirror, so that rays can have unordered reflections inside the tunnel. It will also be a lot easier to set up the geometry.


- Mark

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Have a look at this article to get started with the hybrid mode: How to model a mixed sequential/non-sequential system.


 

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