[time-nuts] LEDs as non-linear photo-detectors

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Wed Jan 20 06:33:02 EST 2016


Moin,

Just to spice up the discussion of LEDs and their photo-sensitivity, I would
like to point you at the bachelor thess of Aljunid[1] where he used LEDs
as replacement for photodiodes in a michelson interferometer style
pulsewidth autocorellation setup to measure femtosecond pulses.

			Attila Kinali


[1] "Optical Autocorrelation using Non-Linearity in a Simple Photodiode",
by Syed Abdullah Aljunid, 2007
http://qolah.org/thesis/thesis-syed.pdf

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