Photodiode
convert's light into current.
See Also: Diode, Laser Diode, Zener Diode, Diode Test, Photodiode Arrays
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Light-to-Analog Sensors (Voltage)
Renesas' light-to-voltage silicon optical sensors combine a photodiode array, a non-linear current amplifier and a micropower op amp on a single monolithic IC. Applications for these devices include display backlight control, keypad dimming, anti-glare mirror systems, and industrial and medical light sensing applications.
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Light Analysis
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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Photodiode Burn-in Reliability Test System
58606
The Chroma 58606 PD/APD Burn-in system is a high density, multifunction and temperature controlled module based system for photo diode burn-in and lifetime test. Each module has up to 256 Source Measurement Unit channels which can source current and measure voltage in various scenarios such as one described below. The system can accommodate 7 modules for a total of 1,792 device channels.
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Power Meter
TW3211
Techwin(China) Industry Co., Ltd
TW3211 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 optical fibers. A Ø1.0mm photosensitive area photodiode is used to significantly improve the stability and the reliability. It features ingenious appearance, a wide range of power measurement, high accuracy, an user self-calibration function and a reference power level storage.
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Colorimeter
K10-A
The Klein K10-A has long been regarded as the industry standard in LCD calibration. It's enhanced optics give it a 3X advantage in sensitivity over the original K-10 SF. Known for it's superior speed, the K10-A can stream intensity data in 3.2 milliseconds, and can provide color data in 125 milliseconds. The Klein K10-A is also extremely sensitive and color accurate. Large photo-diodes give the probe superior performance even in extremely low light (down to 0.00006 cd/m2). Klein diodes are very large; 5mm x 5mm each, and are thermally stable and linear to report the highest degree of accuracy. The unparalleled speed and iconic design of this colorimeter have made it the most widely known Klein product.
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Handheld Power & Energy Meter
Nova 7Z01500
*Compatible with all standard Ophir Thermopile, Pyroelectric & Photodiode sensors.*Single shot energy measurement with thermal sensors.*Optional RS232 computer interface. Works with Ophir's StarCom32 application.*Power and energy logging with graphical display and statistics.*Laser Power Measurement averaging.*Easy to use soft keys, menu driven.*Screen graphics.*Backlight & rechargeable battery.*Analog output.*EMI rejection.*LabVIEW software included.
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Ambient Light Sensors
Renesas' ambient light sensors optimize display backlighting, enhance energy efficiency, and improve user experience with ultra-low light sensitivity, low power consumption, and precise spectral response. Our offerings include light-to-digital sensors with IR blocking filters and I2C interfaces, and light-to-analog solutions integrating photodiodes and amplifiers. Designed for automotive, industrial, and medical applications, these sensors deliver reliable performance even in demanding environments.
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Gated Integrator | Boxcar Averager
GIA100
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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Laser Diode
Is a Polarization Maintaining CWDM Coaxial DFB-LD for CWDM analog communication, CATV return-path, laboratory instrument, and R&D applications. This cost-effective, high reliability DFB laser chip has a selectable wavelength with range between 1270 nm to 1610 nm. The versatile DFB-CWDM also features a built-in InGaAsP monitor photodiode, built-in optical isolator and 4-pin coaxial- pigtailed package, single mode coupling, and an FC/APC connector. Contact Optilab for more information.
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Photodetectors
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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Photodiodes & Arrays
Excelitas utilizes Silicon and InGaAs materials for our photodiodes to provide detection from 220 nm to 1700 nm. These devices are offered in a variety of sizes to meet customer sensitivity and speed requirements. Many different types of photodiodes are available to serve various unique applications.
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Wavelength Meter
HighFinesse/Ångstrom offers sensitive and compact wavelength meters with a large spectral range for high speed measurement of lasers. The optical unit consists of temperature-controlled Fizeau-based interferometers that are read out by photodiode arrays. The high absolute accuracy is achieved by use of solid state, non-moving optics.
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Avalanche Photodiodes
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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Handheld Laser Power & Energy Meter
Nova ΙΙ 7Z01550
*Compatible with all standard Ophir Thermopile, BeamTrack, Pyroelectric and Photodiode sensors.*Large, high definition LCD display.*Both digital and analog needle display.*USB and RS232 output to PC with Statistics package.*Select between English and Japanese interfaces*Analog output.*Soft keys and menu driven functions with on line help.*Log every data point at up to 4000Hz with pyroelectric sensors.*Non-volatile data storage up to 59,400 points.*Laser tuning screen and power log.*2 position kickstand.*System Integrator Tools included: LabVIEW VIs, COM Object Interface.
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Photo Detector with Integrated Transimpedance Amplifiers
ADN3010-11
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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Adjustable Range Reflective Photoelectric Sensor
EQ-30
Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America
The compact EQ-30 Adjustable Range Reflective Photoelectric Sensor is only 68 x 20 x 40mm but delivers amazing performance. Normal Reflective Type Sensors operate by sensing the variation in the amount of incident beam. However, the Adjustable Range Reflective Sensing Type Sensors, incorporate a 2-segment photodiode to sense variation in the incident beam angle. Thus, the output is activated according to the distance of the object from the Sensor. This system helps the EQ-30 Series to be unaffected by object color or a background, enabling stable sensing. The robust housing offers IP67 protection allowing the EQ-30 Sensor to be used in the most demanding industrial environments.
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Transimpediance Amplifiers
The UDT TRAMP products are transimpedance amplifier (current-to-voltage) instruments that provide a low input impedance to accurately measure the short circuit current of phototransducers such as silicon and germanium photodetectors, vacuum photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes. The range includes the economically priced TRAMP, and for ultra precision and accuracy, the TIA-3000.
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Spectral Light And Color Meter w/ Flicker measurement
BTS256-EF
Spectroradiometer for the illuminance (photopic, scotopic, melanopic), spectrum, light color, color rendering index, and flicker. Cosine field of view illuminance measurement for accurate evaluation of extended illumination. Flicker measurement. Spectral measurement technology, required for LED light, color, color rendering, color effects. Photodiode for synchronization to pulse width modulated light and flicker measurement.
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Optical Transimpedance Amplifiers
Analog Devices optical transimpedance amplifiers offer a complete, high performance, single chip solution for converting photodiode current into a differential voltage input. Supporting data rates from 155 Mbps to 11.1 Gbps, our transimpedance amplifiers are ideally suited for data communications and telecommunications applications supporting lay protocols including 1×, 2×, 4×, and 8× Fibre Channel, 10GBASE-LX4, SONET/SDH up to OC-192 with FEC, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Our transimpedance amplifiers feature low input referred noise current, high input current, and low power dissipation.
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Highest SNR PDA Miniature Spectrometer
VS70-PDA
VS70-PDA OEM Photodiode Array Spectrometer is a high performance compact fiber coupled spectrometer covering wide spectral range of 200 to 1000 nm. This VS70 system for industrial applications uses a modified VS70 optical engine with Horiba’s type-IV Aberration-Corrected Flat-Field Holographic Ion-Etched concave grating optimized for UV-VIS and a linear photodiode array.
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Silicon Pyranometer
LPSILICON-PYRA04
Pyranometer with silicon photodiode for measuring the GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE, diffuser for cosine correction. Spectral range 400…1100 nm.
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Atomic Force Microscope
AFM Heron
New, fully motorized AFM HERON (HERO of Nanotechnology) which allows to perfectly align a cantilever, laser and photodiode by just one click on a command button. The scanning settings and landing parameters are also automated that allows to avoid any time consuming adjustment operations, thus leaving more time to researcher for designing the experiment and performing more accurate measurements.
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Photodiodes
Opto Diode manufactures high quality standard and custom photodiodes. Our wide range of standard device feature low dark current and low capacitance. The silicon detectors are ideal for general purpose applications, laser monitoring, position sensing, measuring photons, electrons, or X-rays, or for detecting sun and rain applications. The devices operate from the deep UV to the near-infrared wavelengths.
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Sensing System
FBG
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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PIN Photodiode
PIN photodiode is a kind of photo detector, it can convert optical signals into electrical signals.This technology was invented in the latest of 1950's. There are three regions in this type of diode. There is a p-region an intrinsic region and an n-region. The p-region and n-region are comparatively heavily doped than the p-region and n-region of usual p-n diodes. The width of the intrinsic region should be larger than the space charge width of a normal p-n junction. The PIN photo diode operates with an applied reverse bias voltage and when the reverse bias is applied, the space charge region must cover the intrinsic region completely. Electron hole pairs are generated in the space charge region by photon absorption. The switching speed of frequency response of photo diode is inversely proportional to the life time. The switching speed can be enhanced by a small minority carrier lifetime. For the photo detector applications where the speed of response is important, the depletion region width should be made as large as possible for small minority carrier lifetime as a result the switch speed also increases.
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40Gb/s DQPSK Receiver
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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Phototransistors
Phototransistors are photodiode-amplifier combinations integrated within a single silicon chip. The phototransistor can be viewed as a photodiode whose output current is fed into the base of a conventional transistor. These photodiode-amplifier combinations are put together to overcome the major limitation of photodiodes: unity gain. The typical gain of a phototransistor can range from 100 to over 1500.
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Full Range Photodiode Array UV-VIS-NIR-SWIRLaboratory Spectroradiometers
The SR-Series of full range laboratory spectroradiometers is ideal for a wide range of applications, including Solar radiance and irradiance measurements. Solar simulator test and classification. LED, laser, light source metrology. Radiometric calibration transfer. Remote sensing applications.
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Light-Transmitting/-Receiving Devices for Optical Communication Systems
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Various light-transmitting/-receiving devices support the foundation of optical communication systems. The portfolio includes semiconductor lasers and photodiodes for optical transceiver modules and board level design, as well as wavelength-tunable lasers and optical receivers for optical coherent communication devices in the backbone systems.
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PIN Diodes
PIN photodiodes convert light to current – without a bias voltage having to be applied. Silicon is commonly used as an inexpensive detector material in the Vis range. For higher demands, InGaAs is used; it covers the widest spectral range from the Vis to the NIR. We offer silicon carbide as a “solar-blind” detector specifically for the UV range.
