SBIR/STTR Research Award
Demonstration of High-dynamic-range Lidar Focal Plane Array
Award amount
$80,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2017Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2016-11-15
- Contract end date
- 2017-05-14
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- 2016.2
- Topic code
- N162-112
Research abstract
A linear 256-element silicon-photodetector focal plane array (FPA) will be tested and characterized, before being integrated with camera electronics and tested. The FPA will be shown to have at least 6 bits of dynamic range beyond the existing lidar sensors used in airborne lidar systems for underwater mine detection. The ability to accommodate glint, while maintaining sensitivity will also be demonstrated. The results of these tests will be used to develop the design of a fine-pixel-pitch 1,024 element linear avalanche photodiode (APD) receiver, which will be fabricated and demonstrated in Phase II, and shown to provide enhanced probability of target detection, with lower false alarms, compared to existing lidar receivers.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Additive Manufacture of Inorganic Freeform Gradient-Index Optics
- Compact High-Degrees-of-Freedom Freeform Beam-Expander Optics
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Awards with the same topic code
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- Innovative Methods for Limited Dynamic Range Optical Detectors to More Effectively Operate in High Dynamic Range Environments
- Innovative Methods for Limited Dynamic Range Optical Detectors to More Effectively Operate in High Dynamic Range Environments
- Innovative Methods for Limited Dynamic Range Optical Detectors to More Effectively Operate in High Dynamic Range Environments
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