Video-speed detection of the absolute position of a light point on a large-area photodetector based on luminescent waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2209-2218

  Koeppe, Robert ^a,b   Neulinger, Anton ^a,b   Bartu, Petr ^a   Bauer, S ^a  

^a Department of Soft Matter Physics JKU Linz ^*  (Austria)

^b IsiQiri Interface Technologies GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSOLUTE POSITION; ACTIVE AREA; LARGE AREA DEVICES; LASER POINTER; LIGHT SIGNAL; LUMINESCENT DYES; PHOTODIODE SIGNALS; PHOTOSENSOR; POLYCARBONATE FOIL; REGULAR PATTERNS; SILICON PHOTODIODE; SPEED DETECTION;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 76149106493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002209     Document Type: Article

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