Slawomir Piatek, Ph.D., Hamamatsu Corporation and New Jersey Institute of Technology

Archived webinar

Original date: May 26, 2020

About this webinar

Photodetectors are essential components in a vast array of modern scientific and commercial instruments and devices; technological progress will make them even more ubiquitous. Understanding their opto-electronic properties, regimes of operation, circuit requirements, and noise characteristics is essential to a practitioner to make a proper photodetector selection for a given application.

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The purpose of this presentation is to provide guidance in this selection process by discussing the above considerations for the four most common point photodetectors:

1. Photomultiplier tube
2. Photodiode
3. Avalanche photodiode
4. Silcon photomultiplier