SBIR/STTR Research Award
Efficient Low-Dark-Count Detector for Photon Counting
Award amount
$90,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2008Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Recipient company
- VOXTEL, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- N2KECNUUMBF4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Voxtel proposes to develop fiber-coupled near-infrared avalanche photodiode (APD) receivers with photon detection efficiency (PDE) and dark count rate (DCR) with more than two orders of magnitude faster maximum count rate (MCR) than Geiger-mode APDs, which are constrained by a fundamental tradeoff between DCR and MCR: if the APD is cooled to reduce DCR, then its dead time must increase to avoid afterpulsing, which reduces MCR.
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