SBIR/STTR Research Award
Single Photon Counting LIDAR Sensor
Award amount
$124,999Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2018Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2018-07-27
- Contract end date
- 2019-02-15
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- SBIR_18_P1
- Topic code
- S1
Research abstract
To address NASA’s need for next-generation spaceborne lidar systems for aerosol, cloud, and ocean profiling, Voxtel is developing a low-noise high-efficiency high-dynamic-range photon-counting (HiP) sensor. The HiP sensor is based on silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology and is capable of both atmospheric and ocean profiling, essentially enabling the first-ever ocean-profiling lidar from space and advanced retrievals of dense cloud properties. The HiP sensor has a linear photon-counting dynamic range of 10 GHz, a low dark-count rate of 25 kHz, and a high photon-detection efficiency of 35% at 532 nm.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Lightweight Freeform GRIN Optics for Small Arms Fire Control
- Additive Manufacture of Inorganic Freeform Gradient-Index Optics
- Compact High-Degrees-of-Freedom Freeform Beam-Expander Optics
- Multi-Mode Digital Readout Integrated Circuit for Active Imaging and Ranging
- Micron-scale Direct-detection X-ray Detectors
Research funding history
235 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2000–2021). Reported award amounts total $86,180,717. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency