Patent ID: 8791402

Claim:
A detector device configured to receive light and generate electrical signals, the detector device comprising: a housing; a detector disposed in the housing; a cooling component disposed in the housing, the cooling component being at least one of: positioned so as to have a light path extend through the cooling component, the light path being defined by light that is received for detection, a thermally conductive, electrically insulating intermediate element, and disposed in direct contact with at least one of a light sensor of the detector and a substrate bearing the light sensor of the detector: and a further cooling component that is at least one of disposed in the housing and disposed in thermally conductive contact with the cooling component, wherein at least one of the cooling component and the further cooling component is an active cooling component, and wherein the active cooling component is in thermally conductive contact with the housing and heat flow directed from the active cooling component to the housing runs counter to a direction of incidence of the received light.