Thesawtooth wave(orsaw wave) is a kind ofnon-sinusoidal waveform. It is so named based on its resemblance to the teeth of a plain-toothedsawwith a zerorake angle. A single sawtooth, or an intermittently triggered sawtooth, is called a ramp waveform. The convention is that a sawtooth wave ramps upward and then sharply drops. In a reverse (or inverse) sawtooth wave, the wave ramps downward and then sharply rises. It can also be considered the extreme case of an asymmetrictriangle wave.
TheA/WA/Wunits refer to the current (in Ampère) produced per Watt of light incident on the photodiode. This current-production happens when the diode operates in the so-called photoconductive mode. Since your question wasn't on the inner workings of a photodiode, I won't expand on this, butWikipediacontains some more information if desired.