Designers of the first handheld laser barcode scanner, Jerome Swartz PhD and Shelly Harrison PhD utilized a photodiode to measure the intensity of reflected light from a laser beam, detecting specific modulated patterns in a barcode, transforming commerce methods.
Posted April 1st, 2011
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