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    Photodiodes - (266 companies)
    Photodiodes are used for the detection of optical power (UV, Visible, and IR) and for the conversion of optical power to electrical power. Photodiodes are a two-electrode, radiation-sensitive junction formed in a semiconductor material in which...
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    Photosensor Modules - (112 companies)
    Photosensor modules are compact light detectors with built-in power supplies. They use photomultiplier tubes, avalanche photodiodes, PN photodiodes, or PIN photodiodes. Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are evacuated envelopes with a photocathode...
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    Fiber Optic Receivers - (129 companies)
    Fiber optic receivers are instruments that convert light into electrical signals. They contain a photodiode semiconductor, signal conditioning circuitry, and an amplifier. How to Select Fiber Optic Receivers. Image Credit: Avago Technologies...
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    Phototransistors - (129 companies)
    Phototransistors are solid-state light detectors with internal gain that are used to provide analog or digital signals. They detect visible, ultraviolet and near-infrared light from a variety of sources and are more sensitive than photodiodes...
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    Optical Triangulation Position Sensors - (77 companies)
    ...for triangulation sensors: Charged coupled device (CCD)- CCD is a digital pixelated array detector. Smart CCD lasers react spontaneously to changing surface conditions, providing accurate results regardless of surface texture or color. Photodiode (PSD) - PSD...
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    Fluorometers - (99 companies)
    ...configurations of fluorometers include photomultiplier tubes and photodiodes. A photomultiplier tube is a photo-detector, with adjustable voltage, that translates optical tube (PMT) signals into electrical current. Increasing the PMT voltage increases...
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    PIN Diodes - (93 companies)
    ...large radio frequency signals while using much smaller levels of direct current excitation. A PIN photodiode is also another name for a positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) diode. PIN photodiodes are semiconductor light detecting diodes...
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    Optocouplers - (214 companies)
    ...and a photosensor -- typically a photoresistor, photodiode, phototransistor, silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR), or triac. Both of these elements are separated by a dielectric (nonconducting) barrier. When input current is applied to the LED, it switches...
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    Transimpedance Amplifiers - (29 companies)
    ...blocks in any system that measures light. Many material analysis apparatus rely on photodiodes to accurately detect compounds. Such systems find it essential to measure a range of light intensities. Some substances have strong absorption bands...
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    Focal Plane Arrays - (19 companies)
    Focal plane arrays (FPA) are detectors consisting of a linear or two-dimensional matrix of individual detector elements, typically used at the focus of an imaging system.

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Silicon photodiodes are semiconductor devices responsive to high-energy particles and photons. Photodiodes operate by absorption of photons or charged particles and generate a flow of current in an external circuit, proportional to the incident power. Photodiodes can be used to detect the presence...

This white paper describes the Series 9 avalanche photodiodes (APDs) from First Sensor for high resolution LIDAR systems developed for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), 3D mapping systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, automation and meteorology....

...optical designers is the lateral-effect photodiode, which provides direct readout of the displacement of a light spot across its active area; with the air of optics and electronics such a detector can measure angle and distance....

The basic structure of the photodiode is a reverse biased PN junction. When light of the proper wavelength is directed toward the junction, hole electron pairs are created and swept across the junction by the field developed across the depletion region. The result is a current flow, photocurrent...

Selective spectral sensitivities by photodiode structure....

Silicon photodiodes are semiconductor devices used for the detection of light in ultra-violet, visible and infrared spectral regions. Because of their small size, low noise, high speed and good spectral response, silicon photodiodes are being used for both civilian and defense regulated...

Neutron radiation testing was performed on a total of 125 silicon photodiodes to investigate the changes in the device parameters after neutron exposure. Califonium-252 source was used to irradiate these photodiodes with 1 MEV equivalent neutrons having in the range of 5x1011 to 1014 N/cm2...

This performance must be achieved within the optical transducer. Our objective is so examine the suitability of silicon photodiodes as the transducer, and to discuss the calibration accuracy, reproducibility and stability that are likely to be achieved from a commercial company....

AN951 Amplifying High-Impedance Sensors - Photodiode Example and C reduce the output noise. The output noiseR N N Author: Kumen Blake and Steven Bible is also kept low by not over-compensating the feedback Microchip Technology Inc. loop. INTRODUCTION C F Embedded systems contain many types...

Recent improvements in silicon photodiode fabrication technology have resulted in the production of photodiodes which are stable after prolonged exposure to short wavelength radiation and which have efficiencies in the far ultraviolet close to those predicted using a value of 3.63 eV...

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