balanced photodiode

Oct 02, 2007 5 Replies

My professor gave me a circuit schematics of Balanced photodiode.



This is my first time to study Balanced photodiode.



It is composed of Photodiode pair( picture)


---------------|>|------------------ | | op amp pin 2( - ) g-------- --------------------- n | | d ---------------|


picture is broken

origincal picture is below.

---------------|>|------------------ | | op amp pin 2( - ) g-------- --------------------- n | | d ---------------|

Photodiodes work as current sources. Don't think of them as rectifiers.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

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It can be done--if you're willing to jump thru hoops.

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--though I think I already found (IIRC) the cookies thing doesn't revert if they aren't protected.

The opamp is used a current to voltage amp. PD work best as current sources.

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