General Purpose

Features

• Most widely used Silicon photodiodes
• Sensitive from 400 to 1100nm.
• Available in a variety of active area sizes, from 0.5mm dia. to 28mm dia.
• Offered in a variety of packaging types,:
• Hermetic TO can
• BNC
• Plastic housing

General Purpose

High Speed Silicon Photodiodes

Features

• Small active area detectors
• Optimised at 800nm band
• Fast rise time for high bandwidth applications (up to 450 MHz).
• Available in
• flat window
• micro-lens window TO18 can.

High Speed Silicon

UV Enhanced Photodiodes

Features

• Generally sensitive between 200 to 1100nm
• Typically packaged with
• Quartz
• UV transmissive glass window.
• Exhibit low dark current
• Can be reverse biased for lower capacitance and faster rise time performance

UV Enhanced Photodiodes

X-Ray and Radiation Detectors

Features

• Unique class of Silicon Photodiode
• Designed for additional sensitivity in the X-Ray region
• Without use of scintillator crystals or screen. S
• Sensitivity ranges from
• 200nm to 0.07nm (6eV to 17.6keV) or
• 17.6 keV and above.
• Generally available with removable window
• Vacuum compatible

X-Ray and Radiation Detectors

Photodiode Arrays

Features

• Linear or 2 Dimensional array
• Active areas offered in different sizes and pitch to suit variety of applications.
• Offered in
• LCC
• DIP chip carriers
• PCB
• Ceramic
• Monolithic solderable bare chip

Photodiode Arrays

Special Detectors

Features

• Two Colour Photodiodes
• Nd:YAG Optimised Photodiodes

Special  Detectors

Avalanche Photodiodes

Features

• Most widely used Silicon photodiodes
• Sensitive from 400 to 1100nm.
• Available in a variety of active area sizes, from 0.5mm dia. to 28mm dia.
• Offered in a variety of packaging types,:
• Hermetic TO can
• BNC
• Plastic housing

Avalanche Photodiodes

Photodiode Amplifier Hybrids

Features

• Detectors are integrated with pre-amplifier inside the same package.
• Producing voltage output proportional to incident light intensity.
• Variety of gains and bandwidths are determined by external feedback components of customers’ choosing

Photodiode Amplifier Hybrids

Photodiode Filter Assemblies

Features

• Optical filter offers a low cost and effective solution
• Tailor spectral response of a Silicon photodiode.
• Photometric and Radiometric detectors are more often designed through the use of integrated optical filter

Photodiode Filter Assemblies

Solderable Chip Photodiodes

Features

•  A low cost approach
• For applications requiring large active area photodetectors
• Detector is considered ‘disposable’.
• Available with
• Soldered leads
• Stand-alone bare die.
• Sensitivity range from 400nm to 1100nm.

Solderable Chip Photodiodes

Position Sensing Detectors

Features

• Segmented and Lateral Effect PSD
• Active Area available
• 1-Dimensional or
• 2-Dimensional   
• Available in a variety of
• active area sizes
• packaging to suit wide-ranging applications.
• Segmented Detector is typically used in beam nulling application
• Lateral Effect PSDs are most suited to measure wide lateral displacement.

Position Sensing Detectors

Plastic Encapsulated Detectors

Features

• A line of high quality and reliable plastic encapsulated photodiodes.
• Available in a variety of shapes and sizes of photodetectors and packages, including:
• industry standard T1
• T13/4
• BPW34
• flat and lensed side lookers
• Surface mount family

Plastic Encapsulated Detectors