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Non-amplified Photodetectors User's Manual

Our high speed free space optical detectors use battery biased photodetectors for a cost effective diagnostic tools suitable for a variety of high speed applications such as viewing …

Technical Notes

Laser Intensity Noise Measurement

Since laser intensity noise often sets the performance limit of an experiment, it is important to characterize it to get good results. When making this kind of measurement, a low-noise, …

Selection Guides

Optical Receiver Selection Guide

As the interface from a photonics experiment to electronic instruments, photodetection is critical to extracting and preserving experimental results. Newport's optical receivers and …

Selection Guides

Photoreceiver Guide

We know that high speed photodetection, as the interface from your photonics experiment to your electronic instruments, is critical to extracting and preserving your experimental results. …

Technical Notes

Types of Photoreceivers

The main types of photoreceivers are those that can detect optical signals with fast temporal responses or those containing high frequency components.

Application Notes

Swept-Wavelength Testing: Saving Time and Bringing Real-Time Process Control to the Manufacturing Environment

With the recent trend towards higher channel counts in telecommunications systems, the efficiency of wavelength-characterization measurements is becoming a major issue. Although the …

Manual

1801 & 1811 125-MHz Photoreceivers User Manual

The New Focus Models 1801 and 1811 125-MHz, low-noise photoreceivers address the needs of the photodetector community in the area of low-noise, high-gain, RF photoreception.

Application Notes

Polarization Control and Measurement for Optical Fibers

Polarization in optical fiber has been extensively studied and a variety of methods are available to either minimize or exploit the phenomenon. In this note, basic principles and technical …

Literature

Telecom Data Brochure

Telecommunications/ data communications, also known as telecom/datacom, is the exchange of information over significant distances by electronic means and refers to all types of voice, …

Technical Articles

Demand for High-Speed Detectors Drives Research - Laser Focus World

Resonant-cavity enhanced detectors improve detection and wavelength selectivity, high-power traveling-wave detectors increase dynamic range of analog fiber links.

Technical Articles

Photo-emf Detector Enables Laser Ultrasonic Receiver - Optoelectronics World

Laser ultrasonic receiver with photoelectromotive force detector can measure dynamic displacement of rough surfaces moving at process speeds.

Technical Articles

Better Test Systems Boost Laser Diode Performance - Photonics Spectra

As laser diodes continue their drive to the head of the class, instrumentation that provides test and measurement support is not far behind.

Literature

Flow Cytometry Brochure

Flow cytometry is an analytical technique that can rapidly measure the properties of individual cells or particles as they pass through a beam of light, which is typically a laser. …

Manual

1621 & 1623 Nanosecond Photodetectors User Manual

The Model 162X is a general-purpose battery-powered photodetector for measuring optical signals down to nanosecond time scales.

Selection Guides

Optical Receiver Finder

Quickly find the most appropriate high speed detectors or receivers for your application by selecting any of the key parameters from below.
The photoreceiver device type is defined …

Tutorials

Insights Into Swept-Wavelength Characterization of Passive Fiber-Optic Components

Building a swept-wavelength system requires a tunable laser source, the device under test, power sensors, and a data-acquisition system. The swept-wavelength method for high-resolution …

Technical Articles

Innovative Photoreceivers Simplify Measurements - Laser Focus World

Applications for photodiodes combined with novel circuitry range from studies of meteor deposited metals In the upper atmosphere to calcium Ions In biological cells.

Application Notes

Swept Wavelength Testing Characterizing the Tuning Linearity of Tunable Laser Sources

In a swept-wavelength measurement system, the wavelength of a tunable laser source (TLS) is swept continuously at a constant rate throughout the desired tuning range, while the device …

Literature

Oriel Legacy TLS260 Light Source Datasheet

The TLS260 family of Tunable Light Sources (TLS) provides an upgrade from the standard Xenon (Xe) and Quartz Tungsten Halogen (QTH) TLS for users seeking additional light intensity …

Literature

New Focus Tunable Diode Lasers Brochure

Tunable External Cavity Diode Lasers (ECDLs) are employed in many applications, including coherent optical telecommunications, atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy, laser cooling, …