[Ronja] Pyroelectric receiver?

[alex dinovitser]

I also thought these detectors were slow, until a colleague of mine showed me a
device (that he'd just blown up with a laser pulse!). 

There are probably many different manufacturers, probably cheaper than this
($100) laboratory device from "Molectron" 
Called the "P1-60" with a flat frequency response of 70MHz. The largest
version, the P1-65 has an active diameter of 5mm or ~20mm^2, if you need that
much!


--- Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2007 9:38 PM, alex dinovitser <adinov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am surprised you are using a photodiade for this application because of
> the
> > problems with ambient light and the possibility of DC saturation. Why not
> use a
> > pyroelectric receiver? (which will only be sensitive to the AC signal).
> With a
> > larger area device, you might be able to get *much* better range!!
> 
> I can't comment on the Ronja design decisions but I'm puzzled by your
> suggestion. I've never seen a pyroelectric detector that was very
> past. Most that I've seen have a bandpass no more than 100kHz or so,
> while ronja needs a bandpass of many mHz.
> 
> Perhaps I just haven't been following pytoelectric detector science.
> Could you suggest a part that you think might better fit ronja than
> the current PIN diode?
> 
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