Novel method to simulate and analyze superposition compound eye

A novel method to simulate and analyze the superposition compound eye simply and easily was put forward.The effect of the different ommatidia on the light intensity distribution received by a rhabdom could be obtained by analyzing the different rays focused by one ommatidium.In this way,calculation working for 3D coordinate of each ommatidia could be simplified, so that the modeling process became much simpler.The simulation of a superposition compound eye was completed by this method in the ZEMAX software,simulation results show that the normalized intensity distribution on the corresponding detectors are 0.782 3,0.784 7,0.773 3,0.480 5,0.109 5 and 0.001 93 for one ommatium and six light beams,respectively.The result proves that the simulation and analysis completed by this method is accurate.