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

doi:10.1364/OE.18.002209

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

Robert Koeppe, Anton Neulinger, Petr Bartu, and S. Bauer »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 2209-2218 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.002209

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Abstract

A large-area photosensor is presented that uses the coupling of light into the planar waveguide mode of a polycarbonate foil by luminescent dyes to extend the active area of silicon photodiodes attached to the surface of the foil in a regular pattern. The photodiode signal is directly related to the distance between the point where light is coupled into the foil and the photodiode, thus enabling a precise recovery of the position of a localized light signal hitting the foil. We present a large-area device that can trace the movement of a light point generated by a laser pointer hitting its surface.

OCIS Codes
(230.5160) Optical devices : Photodetectors
(230.7390) Optical devices : Waveguides, planar
(250.5230) Optoelectronics : Photoluminescence
(280.4788) Remote sensing and sensors : Optical sensing and sensors

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Remote Sensing

History
Original Manuscript: November 13, 2009
Revised Manuscript: December 28, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: December 28, 2009
Published: January 19, 2010

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Robert Koeppe, Anton Neulinger, Petr Bartu, and S. Bauer, "Video-speed detection of the absolute position of a light point on a large-area photodetector based on luminescent waveguides," Opt. Express 18, 2209-2218 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-3-2209

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Bartu, P.
Bauer, S.
Braun, D.
Forrest, S. R.
Goetzberger, A.
Greube, W.
Heeger, A. J.
Kalonia, R. C.
Koeppe, R.
Kumar, A.
Lambe, J.
Melnik, I. S.
Mitra, G.
Peumans, P.
Rawicz, A. H.
Sariciftci, N. S.
Sethi, V. S.
Singh, M.
Srdanov, V. I.
Stucky, G.
Varma, R. K.
Weber, H.
Wudl, F.
Yakimov, A.
Zhang, C.

Adv. Mater.

R. Koeppe, P. Bartu, S. Bauer, and N. S. Sariciftci, “Light- and Touch-Point Localization using Flexible Large Area Organic Photodiodes and Elastomer Waveguides,” Adv. Mater. 21(34), 3510–3514 (2009). [CrossRef]

Appl. Opt.

Appl. Phys. (Berl.)

A. Goetzberger and W. Greube, “Solar-Energy conversion with fluorescent collectors,” Appl. Phys. (Berl.) 14(2), 123–139 (1977).

Appl. Phys. Lett.

N. S. Sariciftci, D. Braun, C. Zhang, V. I. Srdanov, A. J. Heeger, G. Stucky, and F. Wudl, “Semiconducting Polymer-Buckminsterfullerene Heterojunctions - Diodes, Photodiodes and Photovoltaic Cells,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 62(6), 585 (1993). [CrossRef]

J. Appl. Phys.

P. Peumans, A. Yakimov, and S. R. Forrest, “Small molecular weight organic thin-film photodetectors and solar cells,” J. Appl. Phys. 93(7), 3693 (2003). [CrossRef]

Opt. Eng.

R. C. Kalonia, G. Mitra, A. Kumar, R. K. Varma, M. Singh, and V. S. Sethi, “Laser-based projectile speed measurement system,” Opt. Eng. 46(4), 044303 (2007). [CrossRef]

Other

A. S. Evenson, Integrated luminescent-concentrator photodetectors, Master thesis at Simon Fraser University (1994)
P. Bartu, R. Koeppe, A. Neulinger, N. Arnold, and S. Bauer, Department of Soft Matter Physics JKU Linz, are preparing a manuscript to be called “Conformable large-area position-sensitive photodetectors based on luminescence-collecting silicone waveguides”
Application examples can be found at www.isiqiri.com

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