Fundamentals of Photodetection

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-38955-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book is designed to serve as a comprehensive guide to understanding, designing, and using photodetectors. It provides an in-depth exploration of photodetection principles, devices, and applications across the electromagnetic spectrum from UV to far infrared.

Fundamentals of Photodetection delivers a systematic treatment of photodetection technology, beginning with essential radiometry calculations and detection regimes before advancing through specific detector families. A wide range of conventional and emerging applications of photodetection are illustrated in detail, including photon counting, radionuclide dating, nuclear pulse spectrometry, timing measurements, fiber-optic receivers, nanowire single-photon detectors, image pickup, and Moiré effects applications, to name a few. Throughout the book, special emphasis is placed on noise as the ultimate sensitivity limit in applications. A full chapter is dedicated to coherent detection and other advanced photodetection techniques, such as optical preamplification, non-demolition detection, squeezed-state detection, ultrafast pulse detection, and detectors for LiDAR and quantum communications. The book concludes with comprehensive coverage of image detectors, CCDs, and modulation transfer functions. Each chapter presents the principle of operation, performance parameters, application circuits with design guidance, and noise analysis as the ultimate sensitivity limit. Carefully selected problems distributed throughout the chapters, the text balances theoretical foundations with real-world design considerations, making complex concepts approachable while maintaining technical rigor.

This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in optoelectronics and engineering, professors teaching PhD seminars in advanced photodetection and noise, and professionals seeking optimal photodetection solutions.

A solutions manual is available for adopting professors.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donati, Silvano

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Lasertechnologie, Holographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 2 Radiometry Calculations 3 Detection Regimes and Figures of Merit 4 Photomultipliers 5 Photodiodes 6 Avalanche Photodiode, SPAD and SiPM 7 Phototransistors, Photoconductors and SNSPD 8 Thermal Detectors and Thermography 9 Solar Cells 10 Coherent Detection 11 Advanced Photodetection Techniques 12 Image Detectors Appendixes

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Silvano Donati is Emeritus Professor of Optoelectronics in the Department of Electronics, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Pavia, Italy. Upon earning a degree in Physics with honors from University of Milano, he joined CISE, where he worked on photodetectors and optoelectronic instrumentation. At the University of Pavia he was a lecturer in Electronics Circuits Design, Electronic Materials and Technologies, and Electro-Optical Systems, and then full professor in Optoelectronics in charge of courses on Photodetectors, Optoelectronic Instrumentation, and Optical Communications. Under his guidance, 120 Master students and 20 PhDs have graduated. He is a Life Fellow Member of IEEE, Life Fellow Member of Optica, and Meritorious member of AEI. He is also Member of several other Societies, including SPIE, IMAPS, and IoP.