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Imec presents a new thin-film monolithic image sensor that captures light in the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR). Based on a monolithic approach, the process promises an order of magnitude gain in fabrication throughput and cost compared to processing today’s conventional IR imagers, while at the same time enabling multi-megapixel resolution.

Marktech Optoelectronics has announced the global market introduction of the Models MTPD1346D-200 and MTPD1346D-300, two large active area InGaAs PIN photodiodes, expressly designed for expanded infrared instrumentation and monitoring capabilities.

In conventional PIN photodiodes, incoming photons create electron-hole pairs, also called charge carriers, which supply a measurable photocurrent. Avalanche photodiodes, APDs, differ from PIN detectors in that the charge carriers set free by the incoming light are accelerated by the internal electric field creating an avalanche of electron-hole pairs through impact ionisation.

The SAE230VSx and SAE500VSx epitaxial avalanche photodiodes are general purpose detectors with high responsivity and extremely fast rise/fall times. The peak responsivity at 650nm is ideally suited to range finding applications using low cost visible diode lasers. LASER COMPONENTS supplies customers all over the world with these industrial grade detectors.

Detecting the smallest amount of light is important in many medical diagnostic applications. Photomultipler tubes (PMTs) are widely used but are sensitive to magnetic fields and require a high operating voltage. Over the last six years avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have started to displace PMTs because they are cheaper, have longer lifetimes, use lower operating voltages and are insensitive to magnetic fields.

Capitalising on expertise in the manufacture of silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) since 2004, LASER COMPONENTS produced the COUNT series of single counting photon modules, with unrivalled quantum efficiency of more than 70% in the red region with dark counts of less than 10cps.

Analog Devices (ADI) has announced a collaboration with First Sensor AG to develop products aimed at speeding the launch of autonomous sensing technology serving unmanned automotive, aerial and underwater vehicles in transportation, smart agriculture, industrial manufacturing and other industries.

Smartphone ubiquity, sensor miniaturisation, and ease of integration have increased the number of wearable products on the market, to the point where such products are now achieving performance levels suitable for medical use-cases.But how will medical wearables make patients healthier - and why now?

LASER COMPONENTS is a reliable manufacturer of both ultrafast pulsed laser diodes and highly-sensitive avalanche photodiodes, thus covering both key technologies of high-performance LiDAR systems. Carmakers and other companies all over the world are currently working hard to bring the idea of self-driving cars to the 5th level.

It has been announced that LASER COMPONENTS has begun laying the foundations for the future with the building of its new production facility for detectors. At the end of April, the ceremonial setting of the cornerstone for the new 26,000 ft² building took place in Chandler, Arizona.