Photodiode
convert's light into current.
See Also: Diode, Laser Diode, Zener Diode, Diode Test, Photodiode Arrays
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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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Photodiode Energy Sensors
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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Ultra-Low Noise 2 kHz Photoreceiver w/ Si-PIN Photodiode
PWPR-2K-SI
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
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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Photodiodes
Avalanche
Similar to photomultipliers, avalanche photodiodes are used to detect extremely weak light intensities. Si APDs are used in the wavelength range from 250 to 1100 nm, and InGaAs is used as semiconductor material in APDs for the wavelength range from 1100 to 1700 nm.
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Light Sensor
NaPiCa
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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SparkFun Opto-isolator Breakout
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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Light Meters
Light Meters are used to measure the light output of an illumination source for a number of optical applications. Light Meters are measurement devices that feature photodiodes to determine the level of light transmitted from a source. Light Meters possess simple, easy to read screens upon which measurements are displayed in one or more photometric units. Most Light Meters possess traceable NIST certification for proof of accuracy.
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Active Optical Connectors
Panasonic Industrial Devices Sales Company of America
All-In-One Design, Integrated Fiber Cable for High-Speed Transmission.Panasonic, a worldwide leader in Connector Products, offers the V Series Active Optical Connectors. Featuring a built-in Laser Diode and Photodiode along with an electrical/optical conversion function, the V Series is an all-in-one optical transceiver capable of transmission rates up to 8 Gbps.
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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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High Speed Free Space Optical Detectors
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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Pyranometer with Silicon Photodiode
LP471SILICONPYRA
Pyranometer with silicon photodiade for GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE measurement.
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Compact Juno USB Interface
Juno 7Z01250
*Virtual laser power meter - From sensor to interface to PC - no power source needed*Plug and play with all standard Ophir smart sensors*Use with StarViewer free Android app to turn your smartphone / tablet into a power meter*Record every energy pulse at up to 10 KHz*Log power and energy, average, statistics, histograms and more with included StarLab application*New: Pulsed Power measurements with Thermopile sensors*New: Low Frequency Power on Photodiode sensors - power measurement based on pulse cycle (for VCSEL)*System Integrator Tools included: LabVIEW VIs, COM Object Interface*Very compact - is just an extension of the smart plug
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Photodiodes
Photodiodes are a type of detector, devices that generate an electrical signal when illuminated by light. ACP offers a variety of different types of photodiodes, including InGaAs PIN photodiodes.
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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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16-element Si photodiode array
S12362-321
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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25G APD Photodiodes
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM offers the highest sensitivity avalanche photodiodes (APD) on the market to satisfy 28G related applications. The chips are usable from 1250 to 1650 nm for bit rates up to 28 Gb/s and 28 GBd. Proprietary designs enable superior bandwidth, excellent temperature stability and high reliability to support market needs of PAM-4 and 400G Ethernet applications.
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10G APD Photodiodes
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM offers the highest sensitivity avalanche photodiodes (APD) on the market to satisfy 10Gtelecom and datacom applications. Both front-illuminated and back-illuminated chips are available and usable from 1250 to 1650 nm for bit rates up to 11.3 Gb/s. Proprietary designs enable superior bandwidth, excellent temperature stability and high reliability to support market needs.
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PD-200 High-Speed High-Power Photodetector
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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One-Dimensional PSD
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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Laser Diode Drivers
Arroyo Instruments offers a broad range of laser drivers to meet your exact test needs. From 100 milliamps to 100 Amps, all of Arroyo Instruments' LaserSource benchtop laser drivers include unique features not found on competing products such as optically isolated photodiode and modulation inputs, programmable PD bias, and both RS232 and USB computer interfaces. The LaserSource also has laser diode protection circuits such as interlock, ESD protection, and hardware limits for current and voltage.
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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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Photodiode
A high sensitivity receiver in a fiber pigtail coupled package, it includes a high speed InGaAs avalanche photodiode with a high gain TIA in a hermetically sealed coaxial package. It incorporates an LC/UPC pigtail and a flexible printed circuit (FPC). The signal GND and a receptacle are electrically isolated in this APD receiver.
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Femtosecond Pump - Probe Transient Absorption System
Hatteras
The Hatteras is first professional system on the market for ultra fast transient absorption pump - probe spectroscopy. Two linear image sensors (multichannel detection) or two photodiodes (singlechannel detection) are placed behind an imaging spectrometer to measure probe and reference pulses, originating from a femtosecond white light (continuum) generator or from an optical parametric amplifier.
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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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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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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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X-Ray And Gamma Detector Systems
The XR-100CR is a new high performance x-ray detector, preamplifier, and cooler system using a thermoelectrically cooled Si-PIN photodiode as an xray detector. Also mounted on the 2-stage cooler are the input FET and a novel feedback circuit. These components are kept at approximately -55 °C, and are monitored by an internal temperature sensor. The hermetic TO-8 package of the detector has a light tight, vacuum tight thin Beryllium window to enable soft xray detection. The XR-100T-CdTe represents a breakthrough in xray detector technology by providing “off-the-shelf” performance previously available only from expensive cryogenically cooled systems. The XR-100-CdTe is also suited for measuring gamma rays.
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High Speed Photoreceivers
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM offers 40G and 50G amplified PIN photoreceivers with high responsivity PIN photodiodes usable from 1200 – 1650 nm. These products are available in butterfly packages with single-mode fiber and coaxial output connectors.





























