Photodiode
convert's light into current.
See Also: Diode, Laser Diode, Zener Diode, Diode Test, Photodiode Arrays
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16-element Si photodiode array
S12362-321
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The S12362/S12363 series is a back-illuminated type 16-element photodiode array specifi cally designed for non-destructive X-ray inspection. These are modified versions of our previous products (S11212 series: 1.575 mm pitch). The pitch has been changed to 2.5 mm. The back-illuminated photodiode array is also simple to handle and easily couples to scintillators without having to worry about wire damage because there are no bonding wires and photosensitive areas on the back side.
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Ultra-Low Noise 2 kHz Photoreceiver w/ Si-PIN Photodiode
PWPR-2K-SI
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Picowatt Photoreceiver series PWPR-2K with switchable gain (10 to the 9th V/A, 10 to the 10th V/A) and a bandwidth from DC to 2 kHz is the perfect choice for cw-measurements, time resolved signal acquisitions and highly sensitive modulated measurements. Si and InGaAs models cover the wavelength range from 320 to 1700 nm.
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Fiber Photodiode Power Sensors
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These interfaces provide communication between an attached sensor and a PC or other external control unit. They are designed to be controlled via an external device or operated autonomously using the analog output; there are no controls or display screens.
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Photodiode Energy Sensors
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Our photodiode laser energy sensors are able to measure low energy pulses down to 10 pJ at frequencies up to 20 kHz. Silicon photodiodes for the UV and visible spectrum and Germanium photodiodes for infrared.
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Detectors
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Thorlabs' photodetectors are capable of detecting light throughout the UV, VIS, NIR, IR, and THz spectral regions. Our photodetectors feature sensors that enable properties such as intensity, power, intensity distribution, wavefront shape, energy, and wavelength to be measured. We offer unmounted photodiodes as well as amplified, biased, and avalanche photodetectors. Thermal power detectors are available unmounted, mounted on a PCB, or mounted on an aluminum plate. Also available are position-detecting sensors, integrating spheres, and an acoustic detection module.
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Avalanche Photodiodes
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These avalanche photodiodes (APDs) are silicon photodiodes with an internal gain mechanism. As with a conventional photodiode, absorption of incident photons creates electron-hole pairs. A high reverse bias voltage creates a strong internal electric field, which accelerates the electrons through the silicon crystal lattice and produces secondary electrons by impact ionization. The resulting electron avalanche can produce gain factors up to several hundred.
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One-Dimensional PSD
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Functions according to the Lateral Effect Photodiode principle. It is an analogue device and therefore displays excellent position resolution. The resolution is determined by the system signal-to-noise ratio. It is operated in the biased mode. Typical applications include: distance andheight measurement, alignment, position and motion measurements and vibration studies
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Gated Integrator | Boxcar Averager
GIA100
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Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co. KG
The GIA100 gated integrator employs dual monolithic switched integrators. When paired with a photodiode, the boxcar amplifier measures the energy of single optical pulses. The GIA100 design results in very low leakage error, charge injection error and pickup. The precision input stage may be configured for current or voltage inputs.
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Sensing System
FBG
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A cost-effective FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) interrogation system that includes a tunable laser diode, 6 photodiodes, and several fiber-optic couplers has been developed with very simple coniguration. Especially, it is not necessary to compensate the accurate wavelength because the wavelength sweeping is precisely performed in terms of the response time of which external cavity material is 5 msec. Moreover, time-varying temperature trends as well as spectra of FBGs can be observed through the front display.
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High Speed Free Space Optical Detectors
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High speed optical detectors use special photodiodes with high speed electronic circuits to convert fast optical pulses to electrical signals for measurement. Unlike our optical receivers, these detectors do not include a transimpedance amplifier.
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Photo Detector with Integrated Transimpedance Amplifiers
ADN3010-11
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Analog Devices optoelectronic amplifiers include a range of germanium photodiodes that, through a proprietary process, have been monolithically integrated with silicon transimpedance amplifiers and limiting amplifiers. This process eliminates the need for bond wires connecting the photodiode to the transimpedance amplifier, which leads to improved performance and greater manufacturing reliability. Our portfolio of products also supports the growing need for optical and electrical interface miniaturization.
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SparkFun Opto-isolator Breakout
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This is a board designed for opto-isolation. This board is helpful for connecting digital systems (like a 5V microcontroller) to a high-voltage or noisy system. This board electrically isolates a controller from the high-power system by use of an opto-isolator IC. This IC has two LEDs and two photodiodes built-in. This allows the low-voltage side to control a high voltage side.
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Photodetectors
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Detection of weak light pulses on the few-photon level is crucial for many applications. The Menlo Systems' detector portfolio includes PIN photodiodes with low noise RF amplifiers, ultrafast avalanche photodetectors with integrated high voltage supplies, and detectors based on homo- and heterodyne detection.
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Light Analysis
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Welcome to Thorlabs; below you will find links to detectors and instrumentation that measure the various properties of light, a subset of our entire line of photonics products. Thorlabs offers an extensive selection of instruments that measure the properties of light. Our versatile power and energy meters can be used with over 25 different sensors in order to make NIST-traceable power and energy measurements. If the convenience of a meter is not desired, our selection of detectors includes basic photodiodes (uncalibrated and calibrated), photodetectors (biased, amplified, and avalanche), CCD and CMOS arrays, position detectors, integrating spheres, and photomultiplier tubes. The Beam Characterization category contains beam profilers (camera and scanning slit), a wavefront sensor, spectrometers, and interferometers, while the Polarimetery link leads to a selection of instruments used to measure and control the polarization of light.
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Light Meter
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Lumu Light Meter incorporate two state of the art sensors. True color sensor, based on the color standard CIE 1931/DIN 5033, and fast silicon photodiode capturing light at astonishing 750 000 measurements/second. Each Lumu Light Meter is calibrated before leaving the manufacturing line and comes with calibration certificate.
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Optical Power Meter
HOPM-3211
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Hangzhou Huatai Optic Tech. Co., Ltd.
HOPM-3211 optical power meter is a handheld optical power meter, newly released in 2007, which can be used for absolute optical power measurements as well as for relative loss measurements in optic fiber networks. An Ø1.0mm photosensitive area photodiode is used to significantly improve the stability and the reliability. It features ingenious appearance, wide range of power measurement, high accuracy, user self-calibration function and reference power level storage.
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Pulse Characterization Sensors
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Pulse Characterization Sensors provide the ability to see and measure the temporal characteristics of pulsed and CW laser beams. Ophir Fast Photodiode Detectors are designed to convert optical signals into electrical signals which are then measured with third-party instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers. Accessories are available to connect to IS6 integrating spheres or fiber optic cables. Attenuating filter accessories are also available to increase their dynamic range. Different models offer silicon, UV enhanced silicon and InGaAs PIN photodiodes, covering a combined spectral range of 193 nm to 1700 nm. Rise times range from 25 picoseconds to 3 nanoseconds. The fast rise times are achieved by an internal reverse bias voltage circuit. Power is supplied by internal batteries and/or an external power supply depending on the model. Detectors should be connected to a 50Ω impedance in order to maintain their nominal rise times. They can be connected to higher impedance loads, but this will result in a significant increase in the rise time. If higher output voltage is required, it is recommended to connect the detector to a trans-impedance amplifier with an Input impedance of 50Ω
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Detectors
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A detector head comprises one or more photodiodes each with an appropriate optical bandpass filter, diffuser, lens assembly, integrating sphere or other optical elements. Detector heads are calibrated in the Gigahertz Optik GmbH's calibration laboratory.
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10G APD Photoreceivers
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Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM offers high-sensitivity avalanche photodiode (APD) based photoreceivers in a variety of packages, including ROSA, OEM module and instrument-style. A wide range of 10G solutions are available with both multimode and single-mode fiber-coupled products.
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Light Sensor
NaPiCa
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Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America
Visible light sensor (Silicon Photo IC) that detects light and converts into electrical current. Consists of a photodiode and built-in amplifier. Optical filter provides spectral response similar to human eye sensitivity. Applications include: LCD Backlight Control, Commercial and Residential Lighting Brightness Control, Security Lighting.
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OLED Life Time Test System
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A system for measuring measurement items (brightness and so forth through Voltage, Current, and Photodiode) and their lifetime in intervals of set time, while supplying power to multiple (32 Channel) OLED panel stably.
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Charge Integrator Amplifiers
AD8488
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Analog Devices’ charge integrator amplifiers convert the charge acquired by X-ray or photodiode detectors to a voltage. The channels are composed of CMOS transistors, using typical high input impedance CMOS gates. The integrators generate charge dependent voltages using a range of selectable capacitance values that accommodate a broad range of input charge values. The integrators are followed by single-ended input to differential output voltage amplifiers where offset and low frequency noise voltages are subtracted from the input voltages.
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PD-200 High-Speed High-Power Photodetector
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These high speed photodiode, PD-200, is hermetically sealed, high reliability, low harmonic distortion photodiode modules designed for high optical power applications with minimum bandwidths of 20 GHz. The device is well suited for receiver applications with optical pre-amplification, and is available either with or without an internal 50Ω termination. The photodiode module is available in either a V-connector package or a miniature surface mount package with CPW (coplanar waveguide) RF output.
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Avalanche Photodiodes
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Excelitas offers Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) on both Silicon (Si) and InGaAs materials. Si APDs cover the spectral range of 400 nm to 1100 nm and the InGaAs APDs cover 950 nm to 1550 nm. An Avalanche Photodiode (APD) provides higher sensitivity than a standard photodiode and is for extreme low-level light (LLL) detection and photon counting.
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FTTx Amplifiers
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Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM’s FTTx amplifiers are designed for PON, RFoG and SFU receiver equipment and are offered in small, plastic QFN packages with integrated amplifier and attenuator functions. All parts cover the full 45 to 1000MHz / 1200MHz CATV band. 5v and 12v solutions are offered with power consumption of ≤ 1.5Watts. MACOM’s FTTx amplifiers are characterized with industry standard photodiodes, covering optical input ranges from -12 to +3dBm and each sample EVK comes complete with a photodiode and APC connector.
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40Gb/s DQPSK Receiver
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The integrated DQPSK receiver incorporates an optical phase demodulator (delay-line interferometer or DLI) with 2 pairs of balanced photo-diodes and 2 linear TIAs into a single butterfly package. Compared with the currently available discrete solution in which a separate DLI and a separate receiver are used, the integrated DQPSK receiver eliminates labor intensive fiber routing and coupling (between the DLI and the balanced receiver) as well as the skew control. Moreover, the integrated DQPSK receiver offers a smaller footprint suitable for today’s demanding high speed transponder applications.
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Silicon Pyranometer
LPSILICON-PYRA04
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Pyranometer with silicon photodiode for measuring the GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE, diffuser for cosine correction. Spectral range 400…1100 nm.
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Photometers & Colorimeters
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Instrument Systems Optische Messtechnik GmbH
A photometer is used to measure the photometric quantities of illuminance (lx), luminous intensity (cd), luminous flux (lm), and luminance (cd/m²). The integral method and the fast response time of silicon photodiodes means that photometers can achieve an outstanding measuring speed. They are therefore ideal for performing fast goniophotometric measurements. We take great care in the development and production of photometer heads and use innovative amplifier technologies.
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Pyranometer with Silicon Photodiode
LP471SILICONPYRA
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Pyranometer with silicon photodiade for GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE measurement.
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High-resolution, SWIR megapixel camera
Wildcat+ 1280 Series
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The Wildcat+ 1280 series is based upon a state-of-the-art InGaAs photodiode array with 1280×1024 pixels and 5 μm pixel pitch. The camera offers superior, high-resolution SWIR imaging capabilities, comes in a versatile and industry-proven Wildcat camera package (GenICam compliant) and offers advanced on-board image processing.The Wildcat+ 1280 camera outputs full frame images at 120 Hz via either a CameraLink or USB3 Vision interface.The Wildcat+ 1280 is suitable for semiconductor inspection, display inspection (mobile phone and TV), microscopy and laser beam analysis.Benefits & Features• Compact and industry-proven camera design• High-resolution SWIR imaging• Advanced on-board image processing performance• GenlCam compliant• Flexible optical mount and lens options
