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Hi Zemax,


The problem I am facing is there is only 1 beam spot on detector as what I wish to see is the light scattered from a surface. Below is a little more details on this problem.


What i wanted to observed on Zemax detector (rectangle) is after the light ray reflected from a surface:



  1.  What is the light pattern;

  2.  What is the intensity of the beam


The object i used:



  1. source point (act as a CW laser and placed at a certain angle)

  2. rectangle (act as a surface)

    1. beam is reflected and scattered from object 2 (lambertian)



  3. detector rectangle (to observed the scattered part)

Hi,


When light is scattered in a lambertian way, many of the rays can be wasted and are not reaching a detector especially if it is small. What you could try is improve the efficiency of the scattering using Importance Sampling: How to use importance sampling to model scattering efficiently When setting importance sampling, check the non-sequential settings in the System Explorer: No rays are scattered when I use Importance Sampling?.


Let us know if that helps and do not hesitate if not.


Sandrine


 


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