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How do I calculate the illuminance of a laser beam?

Does anyone know the equation for this? I am trying to calculate the illuminance of a laser beam. I am shining a laser onto a solar cell. The solar cell's datasheet has graphs with illuminance (lux) ...
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How could I design a circuit for a solar panel so that it only produces output from a red laser?

I'm designing a little laser tag system with some arduino's as a little project for Christmas break and I'm having trouble figuring out how to make my solar panel receive information from my laser ...
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Different ways to detect seals? [closed]

I would like to build an underwater mammal detector to take videos of seals when they get in and out of their cave (the entrance of their cave is underwater). It will be a waterproof sealed box with ...
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detecting laser using solar cell and band pass filter

I need to detect a laser signal using a solar cell. My first problem is that all I get is a current generated from the solar cell that will vary (as I understand and correct me if I'm wrong) in it's ...
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Using a solar panel for laser light detection

I've been planning on putting together a laser tag system and one of the big concerns I have is that photoresistors/phototransistors have relatively small surface areas w/r/t a human body. On the ...
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Large Active Area phototransistors? And can solar cells be a replacement

Me and my friends are trying to build a laserharp driven by arduino as a learning exercise. Currently we are using a phototransistor to interrupt the laser light and play music. However the ...
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