Accuracy of position detection using a position-sensitive detector

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 914-919

  Schaefer, Peter ^a,b   Williams, Ronald D ^a   Kirk Davis, G ^a,c   Ross, Robert A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Avtec Systems   (United States)

^c Nview Corporation   (United States)

^d Virginia Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Optical position measurement; Photodetectors; Photodiodes; Position measurement

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTODIODES; POSITION MEASUREMENT;

POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS (PSD);

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032131115     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.744642     Document Type: Article

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