Optical sensors
Achieve high performance within light and proximity sensing applications
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Help your system understand its surroundings through the use of ambient light sensors, color sensors and proximity sensors. Our portfolio of light sensors allows you to achieve excellent spectral matching and offers a high quality user experience. With the use of our customizable proximity sensing technology, designers can add long-range distance measurements and obstacle detection and avoidance.
Why choose our optical sensors?
Fast conversion time
Quickly understand the environment around the system in order to adjust lighting and brightness with extreme speed.
Versatile packaging
Our multitude of package options, including the industry's thinnest package, allows placement in size restrictive and automotive applications.
High dynamic range
Our optical sensing ranges from 312uLux to 167kLux enabling use in a variety of lighting conditions including dim, bright, and behind covered material.
Customizable proximity sensing
Detect near and far objects of various shapes, sizes, colors, materials, and reflectivity levels in a wide or narrow field of view (FoV).
Technical resources
VIDEO SERIES
TI Precision labs - Light sensors
This light sensor curriculum contains short training videos covering the basics of light sensors, key specifications for selecting light sensors for different applications and much more.
Application brief
How to Select a Light Sensor for Your Application (Rev. C)
This application note describes how to select and compare an ambient light sensor based on the four most important features: spectral response, power, size, and range of lux measurement.
VIDEO SERIES
TI Precision labs - Time of flight training series
Learn about the time of flight and proximity sensing technology and the tools we offer for easy implementation into industrial and consumer applications.
Design & development resources
Simulation tool
OPT3101 system estimator tool
The OPT3101 system estimator tool analyzes the performance of the OPT3101, which is a time-of-flight (ToF)-based, long-range proximity and distance sensor analog front end (AFE). The tool determines if the OPT3101 is able to meet design requirements under various conditions.
CALCULATION TOOL
OPT3006 Field of View (FoV) Simulator
The field of view simulator allows users to understand the potential effects of changing the angle of exposure such as the the amount of light taken in and the performance thereafter.
EVALUATION BOARD
Light source calibration module
The LIGHTSOURCE01EVM is a stable uniform light source used for the calibration of ambient light sensors (ALS) and color sensors. This light source is designed to be used in production environments to calibrate and test final products containing TI light sensors.