In order to help his friend prepare for a talk at DEFCON this weekend, [Craig] built an IR photodiode amplifier circuit. The circuit extended the detection range of the hack from a few inches to a few ...

In this section we shall discuss the interface between a photosensor and its associated electronics. There are really just two photocell applications – light measurement, and the reception of ...

In researching my latest article I ran across this paper about a “robust” photodiode amplifier (pdf). I use the scare quotes on purpose, since the whole article seemed a little fishy to me. The author ...

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

Most of us have Ethernet in our homes today. The real backbones of the Internet though, use no wires at all. Optical fibers carry pulses of light across the land, under the sea, and if you’re lucky, ...

ActLight SA and A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of Singapore have successfully built the "Dynamic Photodiode" using A*STAR IME's photonics technology. ActLight's patented Dynamic Photodiode ...