2013/11/30 by Thomas Kauten, Benedikt Pressl, Thomas Kaufmann +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Electrical Measurement Techniques #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #Dynamic range #Linearity #Noise (video) #Nonlinear system #Photodiode #Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics #Photovoltaic system #Superposition principle #physics.ins-det #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.4879820
published as Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 063102 (2014) · 8 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2014/05/14 · openalex publication_date 2014/06/01 · arxiv updated 2014/06/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
While in most cases the absolute accuracy, resolution, and noise floor are the only relevant specifications for the dynamic range of a photodetector, there are experiments for which the linearity plays a more important role than the former three properties. In these experiments nonlinearity can lead to systematic errors. In our work we present a modern implementation of the well-known superposition method and apply it to two different types of photodetectors.