So I’m trying to optimize a design in Zemax non-sequential. However I’m noticing that there is a discrepancy between what the MF editor reports, and what I see from running ray trace and running detector viewer. My MF looks like the following:
![](https://uploads-us-west-2.insided.com/zemax-en/attachment/7b54d053-bbe6-4de8-b80f-f8e4133720bd.png)
And I see that the total flux (line 7) is 0.619 out of .75. This is a very good number. So then I cancel the optimization, and perform a ray trace, and when I take a look at the detector viewer, I get the following:
![](https://uploads-us-west-2.insided.com/zemax-en/attachment/1615c29a-e870-4563-863f-56c1c0d3d1da.png)
How can the MF editor be displaying 0.619, yet the total power, which I think is the same metric on the detector viewer is indicating 0.422?
Best answer by David.Nguyen
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