Bidirectional and monodirectional detector.

[AleVaghi]

Hi,
First of all, thank you very much for your wonderful software.
Currently, the detector measures the power in both directions. Therefore, if I have the following configuration:
Light source → Detector → Mirror
the measured power is zero, while for parallel propagation it is twice the source power.

It would be very interesting to have the possibility of measuring the power in only one direction. In the configuration above, the result would then be simply the power of the light source.

I hope my explanation is clear. Thank you very much again for your software.

Best regards,

[ricktu288]

Implemented

[AleVaghi]

Thank you very much!
Another question: would it be possible to have a spectrometer to measure the light spectrum?

[ricktu288]

Currently can use a diffraction grating (or a custom surface) to split the light and then use a usual detector. Direct spectrum analysis for detector may be added in the future.