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Photodetectors are semiconductor devices used to detect the intensity (or the power) of an optical radiation field; they transform an incident optical field into an electric signal which can be a photocurrent in a photoconductor or a photovoltage in a photovoltaic detector.
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Dragoman, D., Dragoman, M. (1999). Photodetectors. In: Advanced Optoelectronic Devices. Springer Series in Photonics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03904-5_4
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