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Regarding detection, the optical frequency regime is quite distinct from the radio frequency (RF) range; while RF signals can be picked up by antennas, and the resulting current—which is essentially a replica of the electric field of the wave—can be amplified and processed electronically, detection of optical electric fields is extremely difficult; thus, practically all optical detectors rely on the excitation of electrons by absorption of photons, a process that scales with the signal intensity (Sect. 6.1) instead of its electric field.
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Reider, G.A. (2016). Photodetection. In: Photonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26076-1_9
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