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 & obstacle detection + avoidance. 

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OPT4003-Q1
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Light sensors
OPT4003-Q1 ACTIVE

Automotive high-speed high-precision digital light sensor

Approx. price (USD) 1ku | 1.33

OPT4060
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Light sensors
OPT4060 ACTIVE

High-speed high-sensitivity RGBW color sensor

Approx. price (USD) 1ku | 1.23

OPT4001-Q1
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Light sensors
OPT4001-Q1 ACTIVE

Automotive high-speed high-precision digital ambient light sensor (ALS)

Approx. price (USD) 1ku | 1.21

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Why choose our optical sensors?

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Fast conversion time

Quickly understand the environment around the system in order to adjust lighting and brightness with extreme speed.

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Versatile packaging

Our multitude of package options, including the industry's thinnest package, allows placement in size restrictive and automotive applications.

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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.

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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
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
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.
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Video series
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.
IDE, configuration, compiler or debugger
OPT3101 configurator tool

The OPT3101 time-of-flight (ToF) analog front end (AFE) configurator tool is an offline graphical user interface (GUI) for customizing the configuration of the OPT3101, which is a ToF-based, long-range proximity and distance sensor AFE. OPT3101CONFIG-SW provides a high level of (...)