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Unexpected Response from Photodiode Being Used to Measure Laser Irradiance

Resolved the issue. For anyone that thought the this problem was interesting, the solution will likely disappoint you. Turns out there was a bit on excess solder on the anode of the photodiode that ...
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Unexpected Response from Photodiode Being Used to Measure Laser Irradiance

The traces seems to indicate that the blue oscilloscope input may be set to "AC coupled", and the yellow is set to "DC coupled". First make sure they both have the same settings, ...
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Photodiode transimpedance amplifier with single supply

If you "push" 1μA through an energy sink, like a resistor, then you would expect potential to be higher where current enters that sink, and lower where it exits. However, the photodiode is a ...
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Feasibility of high-speed omnidirectional communication through infrared light

The Ronja/Twibright Labs folks have been successful at transmitting 10BASE Ethernet over an optical link back in the 90s. With a higher power transmitter it should work for short range omnidirectional ...
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