On Monday, April 7, 2014 9:23:13 PM UTC-4, sgpopt...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Optics are simple. I have a laser source with a special optic (DOE). It   
   essentially generates a top hat rectangle. The object that we are looking at   
   is in cylindrical shape and has a diffused reflection. The receiver side, I   
   have a CPC. CPC has a gain    
   of 3.    
      
   For those of us playing along at home...   
   DOE = department of energy?   
   CPC = a camera lens?     
   Gain of 3 = area of lens/area of PD? (PD = photodiode)   
      
   Thanks,   
   George H.   
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   > On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 2:34:35 AM UTC+8, haitic...@gmail.com wrote:   
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   > > > I have used Hamamatsu before but I think you cannot make money by using   
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   > > > Thx.   
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   > > To be a broken record here, if you could describe your exact optics, it   
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   > > help. Assess whether such a description could back-track to revealing your    
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   > > product idea. It only rarely does.   
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   > > Pumping more power into the laser source and gathering more photons seem   
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   > > As Ben Franklin said,   
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   > > "A photon saved on the front end is worth nine on the back end."   
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