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NCE Detector account for angle of incidence

  • February 1, 2025
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mocquin

In non-sequential mode, when a ray intercepts a detector, can you confirm that the angle of incidence is not taken into account when computnig the irradiance ? 

For example for for 2 rays with the same power incident on the same pixel, but with different angle of incidence -one normal and one at 45°, is there a cosine weight assigned to the power of the oblique ray ?

I tried to check for myself by setting up a single pixel detector with 2 source rays of 1W each. WIth normal incidence the total power is 2W, and still with one of them being incident with a 45° angle - so I’d guess angle of incidence are not taken into account, but I’d rather have confirmation from Zemax team -or even better written explicitely in t he docs (maybe I did not find it)

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Mike.Jones
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  • February 1, 2025

A single ray is dimensionless, so all the power in the single ray is collected by the pixel regardless of AOI, as long as the single ray lands within the pixel.  Now try it using Source Ellipse with aperture equal to the pixel size.  At zero AOI all the power is 100% collected.  Next, crank the AOI over to 45°.  The beam now spills off the pixel edge and the collected power is reduced.


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