SBIR/STTR Research Award
Photon-Counting Focal Plane Arrays for Active Sensing from 0.4-2.5 μm Wavelength
Award amount
$99,971Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Aerius Photonics, LLC.
- Proposal award date
- 2010-05-03
- Contract end date
- 2010-11-02
- UEI
- Y9MJH96A29F3
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- MDA09-038
Research abstract
Aerius Photonics proposes to develop photon-counting, linear-mode detection, active imaging focal plane arrays (FPAs) with photoresponse from 0.4 to 2.5 μm wavelength (VIS-NIR-SWIR) by inserting their Broadwave™ photodetector material into an Avalanche Photodiode (APD) structure. In Phase I Aerius will demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by fabricating APD arrays and test structures with photoresponse to 2.1 μm, and develop a Readout Integrated Circuit (ROIC) design appropriate to work with the APD arrays. In Phase II Aerius will fabricate 256x256 APD arrays with photoresponse to 2.5 μm, complete the design of and fabricate an appropriate ROIC, integrate the detector arrays with ROIC and demonstrate active imaging with the FPA throughout the VIS-NIR-SWIR wavelength bands.
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.
- 2-Dimensional Phase Controlled Coherent VCSEL Arrays for Military Applications
- Non-Mechanical Scanning LADAR for Enhanced Spacecraft Survivability
- Lossless Tunable Filter for Space-Based Photonic Routers
- High Speed, Radiation Hardened Focal Plane Array (FPA) for Hybrid Coherent and Direct Detect Active Imaging Receivers
- Monolithic CMOS LADAR Focal Plane Array (FPA) with a Photonic High-Speed Output Interface
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improved High Speed and High Dynamic Range Photon Counting Sensors for Active Imaging
- High Rate Single Photon Sensitive Coded LADAR Receiver
- High Speed, High Dynamic Range Near Infrared Active Imaging System
- Near-infrared, Linear Mode, Photon Counting HgCdTe Focal Plane Arrays
Research funding history
64 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2004–2011). Reported award amounts total $25,631,337. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration