[Laser] OPT-101 vs PIN diode

[Peter Day]

steve kavanagh wrote:
> Art et al:
> 
> In my experience high impedance photodiode receiver
> needs good shielding too.
> 
> There is very little technical info in the
> Scatterpoint article so I don't really know the
> answers to your questions with regard to that specific
> design.  But if you are interested you can find the
> 2005 issues of Scatterpoint at 
> 
> http://www.g0czd.clara.net/ukug/SP_2005/


You can contact G0EWN (Gordon) at: g0ewn191 at yahoo.com

He and I are good friends(he lives  5 miles north of me) and we do 
lightwaves together. However I haven't used the pin diode RX like he 
has. It does sound more sensitive than my OPT101 type though :-)

Peter, G3PHO