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===Overview===
===Overview===


==Position Sensitive Devices==
==Position Sensing Devices==


A position-sensitive device (PSD) is a photosensor which is able to differentiate between the position where incident light strikes the sensing surface. There are uniaxial sensors which are only able to distinguish position along a single axis and duo-lateral or tetra-lateral sensors which are able to distinguish position along two axes. All of these sensors detect the centroid of light
A position-sensing device (PSD) is a photosensor (photodiode or phototransistor) which is able to differentiate between the position where incident light strikes the sensing surface. There are uniaxial sensors which are only able to distinguish position along a single axis, and duo-lateral or tetra-lateral sensors which are able to distinguish position along two axes. All of these sensors provide currents on the output leads which is proportional to the overall intensity of light striking the sensing surface as well as to the distance between the output terminal and the location where the light struck the sensor.


==Duo-Lateral Photodiode==
==Duo-Lateral Photodiode==

Revision as of 17:12, 12 December 2008

Overview

Position Sensing Devices

A position-sensing device (PSD) is a photosensor (photodiode or phototransistor) which is able to differentiate between the position where incident light strikes the sensing surface. There are uniaxial sensors which are only able to distinguish position along a single axis, and duo-lateral or tetra-lateral sensors which are able to distinguish position along two axes. All of these sensors provide currents on the output leads which is proportional to the overall intensity of light striking the sensing surface as well as to the distance between the output terminal and the location where the light struck the sensor.

Duo-Lateral Photodiode

Output

Application