Photomultipliers: There's a Lot to Love
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Placeholder for a PMT article on photon counting, low-current analogue mode vs. MPPCs, and the high linearity version
Optics
What Photodetector Should I Use for Application 'X'?
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We often get asked questions like, “How do I know what photodetector is best for (application X)?” For some values of X, it’s pretty simple: if you’ve got milliwatts of visible light, use a silicon PIN photodiode and an ordinary transimpedance amp (TIA) made from an op amp or (for faster things) a packaged 50-ohm RF amplifier. It’s usually easy to verify that you’re in the shot noise limit—if your photocurrent drops more than 50 mV across its load impedance, you’re there. (*)
Good Books
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Classic Books On Electro-Optics and Circuits In Softcopy
There’s also the 100 Good Books
list from Building ElectroOptical Systems
Books on Electro-Optics
- Photomultipliers: Their Cause And Cure Part 1
- Photomultipliers: Their Cause And Cure Part2 And Front Matter
- RCA Photomultiplier Handbook
- RCA Electro-Optics Handbook (1974)
- “The Intensity Interferometer” by R. Hanbury Brown
MIL-HDBK-141: Optical Design
- Table of Contents through Chapter 6 (pdf)
- Chapters 7 through 12 (pdf)
- Chapters 13 through 16 (pdf)
- Chapters 17 through 20 (pdf)
- Chapters 21 through 23 (pdf)
- Chapter 24 through Index (pdf)
And, courtesy of the good folks at Any2DJVU: