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A photoelectric sensor is a device used to determine the distance, absence, or presence of an object by using a light transmitter, often infrared, and a photoelectric receiver. They are largely used in industrial manufacturing. There are three different useful types: opposed (through-beam), retro-reflective, and proximity-sensing (diffused).
Photodetectors, also called photosensors, are sensors of light or other electromagnetic radiation. [1] There are a wide variety of photodetectors which may be classified by mechanism of detection, such as photoelectric or photochemical effects, or by various performance metrics, such as spectral response.
A reflective type is typically formed on an opaque metal electrode base, where the light enters and the electrons exit from the same side. A variation is the double reflection type, where the metal base is mirror-like, causing light that passed through the photocathode without causing emission to be bounced back for a second try.
This is often connected to an electrical trigger. The trigger reacts to a change in the signal within the light sensor. An optical sensor can measure the changes from one or several light beams. When a change occurs, the light sensor operates as a photoelectric trigger and therefore either increases or decreases the electrical output.
One category of presence sensing devices is Photoelectric Sensors. Light Curtains also fall into this category. Light curtains use many infrared light beams to form a perimeter around machinery. When two or more consecutively adjacent beams are interrupted, a kill-switch stops the machine until the boundary is reset.
Anssi Mäkynen: Position-Sensitive Devices and Sensor Systems for optical Tracking and Displacement Sensing Application. Dissertation, Faculty of Technology, University of Oulu, 2000, Abstract and PDF, ISBN 951-42-5780-4; Henrik Andersson, Position Sensitive Detectors : Device Technology and Applications in Spectroscopy.
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