​@Andrey.Kuznetsov 

I think you should save the ray data when doing the raytrace, which will create a ray database (extension *.ZRD).

Then, in MATLAB, you should be able to parse this database and extract the ray segment direction (LMN) as well as the normal vector at the segment-object interface (Nx, Ny, Nz).

You can then use the scalar product to get the angle of incidence.

​@Michael Cheng wrote a Python code to parse ZRD files, perhaps you can translate it into MATLAB (I don’t use MATLAB sorry 😔).

Also, ​@John.Hygelund did something similar in sequential mode with MATLAB here:

• Plotting ray incidence angles

Perhaps it helps you.

Take care,

David

You can also copy radiant intensity of the ‘text’ tab of a detector. If you have the detector set to accept angles from -90 to 90 and have 181x181 pixels, each pixel is a  square degree

d; %= 181x 181 radiant intensity array copied from zemax

% Define the angles from -90 to 90 degrees
angles = linspace(-90, 90, 181);

% Calculate the sum root square of x and y angles
[angles_x, angles_y] = meshgrid(angles, angles);
sum_root_square_angles = sqrt(angles_x.^2 + angles_y.^2);

% Flatten the arrays for histogram plotting
energy_flat = d(:);
sum_root_square_angles_flat = sum_root_square_angles(:);

% Create a 1D histogram of energy per angle
histogram('BinEdges', linspace(0, max(sum_root_square_angles_flat), 50), ...
          'BinCounts', accumarray(discretize(sum_root_square_angles_flat, linspace(0, max(sum_root_square_angles_flat), 50)), energy_flat, [], @sum));
xlabel('AOI (deg)');
title('Histogram of Radiant Intensity per AOI');

matlab code above with a little help from copilot 

​@John.Hygelund the issue is that my source is not a point source, but the output of an integrating sphere with 24mm aperture, while detector is 10x10mm. So I don’t think your source ellipse method with pixels will work.

In addition to David’s link, I also saw this thread: 

• Is an angle of incidence report available in the Ray Database Viewer?

Will attempt to try it out the Ray DB.

Hi ​@Andrey.Kuznetsov ,

Thanks for the reply. I’m not understanding your limitation. The method above should be agnostic to the source.

Thanks for mentioning the other post. I checked and get the same results using the .zpl