Pyroelectric Detectors With Diff Amp On Display At Sensors Expo

At Sensors Expo & Conference, LASER COMPONENTS will debut a new and improved pyroelectric detector, the LD2100 series, with differential outputs. Pyroelectric crystals simultaneously generate positive and negative charges on opposite faces, and our LD2100 detectors exploit this with a new amplification scheme. The LD2100 series is based the L2100 series CM current mode detector, and we plan to bring other differential versions of our detectors to market in due course. The pyroelectric detector that not only gives double the signal compared to a single ended detector when used with a differential amplifier, but the noise only increases by √2. This produces an improvement in signal to noise ratio of around 1.4. Pyroelectric detectors with a differential amplifier have two additional advantages. External interference signals are eliminated by signal subtraction. Thus, they can be used in critical environments with electric fields. Furthermore, the LD2100 series makes simple wiring possible, with which the signal outputs are connected directly to the inputs of the differential AD converter. The components are inexpensive, reliable, robust, and are highly sensitive from short to long IR wavelengths as thermal detectors. For more information, go to http://www.lasercomponents.com/lc/product/differential-pyroelectric-detector. Come see them at Sensors Expo & Conference, June 28 - 29, 2017, San Jose, CA, USA, Booth 225.