How to Use photodetector in a Sentence

photodetector

noun
  • Rudra used the film to develop a photodetector for infrared light.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In one path, the mode is directly detected by a photodetector.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Beneath the ice are photodetectors that pick up the neutrino signals.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
  • The photon that bounced off the object can then be registered using a photodetector.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The next step was to incorporate those quantum dots into a lab-scale photodetector.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • If those two light beams are shone together on a photodetector, the result depends on whether the pulses overlap in time.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2018
  • After the split light repeatedly bounces back and forth within each arm, the two beams then pass back through the beam splitter into a photodetector.
    — Caitlyn Buongiorno, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • First, a photodetector measures the voltage from the lasers, Chatziioannou says.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Beneath each well is a tiny electronic photodetector that can register light from the bacteria.
    — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • The ubiquitous p-n junction forms the backbone of devices such as solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, and lasers.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2018
  • His team is also experimenting with the kind of photodetector used in lidar systems for self-driving cars.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2018
  • That signal is then passed to a photodetector that translates it into an electronic one that can interface with other devices.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024
  • His lab is currently working on shrinking the size of the photodetectors to improve their resolution.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Super-Kamiokande is a massive tank of ultra-pure water surrounded by photodetectors.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2020
  • This photodetector is blind to visible light, because the silicon layer is just 20 nanometers thick and cannot absorb it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2017
  • According to the team, this innovation now enables a single device to act as both a solar cell and a photodetector, without the usual trade-offs.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Nearby is a second chip with 64 tiny photodetectors on it, each focused on detecting light reflected back from one of the 64 lasers.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2018
  • This ultrathin device is flexible and performs as well as state-of-the-art UV photodetectors, says Xu.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The microcontroller commands the light source and acts as a monitor, checking for any interruptions in light reaching the photodetector.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2022
  • If the molecules of choice filter in and meet the bacteria, the bacterial cells produce light that is picked up by photodetectors embedded in a small electrical chip.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 24 May 2018
  • To detect weak signals with high precision, the team implemented multiple photodetectors to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The connecting electronics can also be made largely transparent so that the entire photodetector array transmits up to 95 per cent of the light hitting it.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • If the bacteria start glowing, the photodetectors that sit just below the bacteria’s compartment are activated.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 May 2018
  • The single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a solid-state photodetector, is at the heart of this innovation.
    — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In both multispectral imaging and ultrafast optical communications, one of the key issues has been the speed of the photodetectors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2017
  • The device would use photodetector sensors would support the transmissive examination of blood oxygen levels.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 July 2021
  • Each photodetector independently measures changes in light, and an algorithm stitches together the three readings in order to gauge speed and motion direction.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
  • Inside the container is a pulsing light source (LED, laser diode, or similar small device) that transmits through the fiber and hits a detector at the end of the fiber called a photodetector.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The heart of a camera and one of the pillars for computer vision is the digital photodetector, a device that forms images by collecting billions of photons traveling through the physical world and into the lens of a camera.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The challenge is that technology that relies on LEDs to project light onto the skin and photodetectors to record the amount of light reflected can have a tough time with melanin, which alters skin light absorption.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2024

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