Photodiode
convert's light into current.
See Also: Diode, Laser Diode, Zener Diode, Diode Test, Photodiode Arrays
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Streak Camera
OptoScope S3C-1
The S3C-1 is a streak camera based on a semiconductor sensor. Like tube-based streak cameras, the S3C-1 captures changes in light along a line and records the change over time. To record the intensity values, they are sampled and stored with up to 2 GSamples/sec. The line is 65 µm wide and consists of 200 elements along its 5 mm length. Each element consists of a sensitive photodiode with a downstream amplifier.A new and special camera feature is continuous recording. This makes it possible to take recordings of events for which precise information about the time of their occurrence only becomes available after they have taken place. This "post-triggering" simplifies or allows certain applications.
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Benchtop Femtosecond/Picosecond Lasers and Amplifiers
The systems feature a portable design with user-friendly front panel control knobs for adjustment of output parameters, such as power, pulse width and repetition rate. With wavelength options of 780 nm, 850 nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm, pulse widths as low as < 0.3 ps, and GHz low-jitter synchronization signals, these systems provide ideal optical sources for high speed transceiver conformance testing and photodiode characterization.
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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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Optical Sensors
Analog Devices optical sensors are optical sensing front ends that include integrated ultra-low noise amplification and high performance photodiodes. These solutions are used to achieve the highest performance for instrumentation, industrial, or clinical applications; or to optimize a solution to achieve the lowest power dissipation at a given performance level for battery powered and portable applications.
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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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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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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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Photodetectors
Packaged photodetectors based on PIN photodiodes for monitoring Q-switched and mode-locked pulsed lasers.
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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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Network OTDR
NFO series
The NFO OTDR unit injects the laser pulse into the fiber under test and picks up scattered and reflected optical signals by an avalanche photodiode (APD). The unit accepts remote commands from Internet to control all related timing and data acquisition processes. Maximal three wavelengths are available at the NFO with options on 1310, 1490, 1550, and 1625 nm. NFO also has options on dynamic ranges so users can select the most cost effective units for their demands. Radiantech provides an easy use API (Application Program Interface) for NFO so users can design and build their own AP for NFO. Standard NFO API package is for Windows XP or higher. Please contact Radiantech’s sales person to inquire API for another OS.
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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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Laser Diode Reliability Burn-In / Life-Test System
58602
Chroma 58602 is a high density, precision multi source measurement Unit (SMU) module with temperature control and exchangeable interface developed for burn-in, reliability and life test of optoelectronic components including laser diodes, VCSELs, VCSEL Arrays, silicon Photonics, photo-diodes and other similar components.
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Linear Array Detector Cards
X-Card 0.2 to 2.5mm
A product family of high performance linear X-ray detector cards with preamplifier ASICs. The preamplifier ASIC converts the charge output from the photodiode array into voltage with serial output for easy integration with readout electronics. Can be arranged end-to-end to form large linear detector arrays.
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Transducers For Photodiodes
Photodiodes convert incoming electromagnetic radiation into electrical charge carriers. If photodiodes are short circuited an electrical current (photocurrent) proportional to the incident radiation intensity (number of photons per second) is induced. These photocurrents are generally small and cover the range from femtoampere (fA) to microampere (µA). Signal transducers transform this weak photocurrent to robust standard signals for reliable data transmission and simple data acquisition.
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Pyranometer with Silicon Photodiode
LP471SILICONPYRA
Pyranometer with silicon photodiade for GLOBAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE measurement.
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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.
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Transimpedance Amplifiers
Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co. KG
Applications include photodetection with PMTs and photodiodes, spectroscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, ionization detectors, pyro and piezoelectric detectors.
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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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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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Optical Power Meters
Artifex Engineering GmbH & Co. KG
The OPM series of optical power meters (OPM) employs photodiodes for the measurement and monitoring of optical power from the UV to near IR.
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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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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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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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10G Pin Photoreceivers
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings Inc.
MACOM offers PIN photodiode based photoreceivers in a variety of packages, including OEM module and instrument-style. A wide range of 10G solutions are available for applications up to 15 Gb/s covering 800-1650 nm wavelengths.
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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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Laser Power / Energy Meter
StarBright 7Z01580
*Compatible with all standard Ophir thermal, BeamTrack, pyroelectric (PE-C series) and photodiode sensors*Brilliant color large size TFT 320x240 display*Choose between Digital with Bargraph, Analog Needle, Line Plot (for laser tuning), Pulse Chart, Pass/Fail, *Position, Stability, Real Time Statistics displays*Sophisticated power and energy logging, including logging every point at up to 5000Hz with Pyro sensors*Math functions for advanced processing such as Density, Scale Factor, Normalize against base line, etc.*Can mix functions together and display the results graphically. Function results can also be logged.*USB Disk on Key (Thumb Drive) for nearly unlimited data storage.*USB and RS232 interfaces with StarLab PC applications and User Commands document
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Detectors & Sensors
Excelitas offers Photonic Detection Solutions ranging from Silicon and InGaAS PINs and Avalanche Photodiodes, Hybrid Receivers, and Photon Counting Modules to address high-performance, high-volume applications across a wide range of markets. Excelitas Thermal IR Sensors represent a broad range of Pyroelectric Detectors, Thermopile Detectors and IR Sensor Modules used for motion detection, presence monitoring, temperature measurement and gas detection.
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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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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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High Speed Fiber-Optic Detectors
High speed fiber-optic detectors use special photodiodes with high speed electronic circuits to convert fast pulses in optical fibers to electrical signals for measurement. Unlike our optical receivers, these photodetectors do not include a transimpedance amplifier.
