72725S03-I Scintillating and wavelength shifting fibers have increasingly demonstrated advantages over traditional radiation detection/tracking for high energy physics and nuclear physics experiments. As the number of channels increases, traditional instruments (photomultipliers, CCDs, and… More

72725-Scintillating and wavelength shifting fibers have increasingly demonstrated advantages over traditional radiation detection/tracking for high energy and nuclear physics research. High internal gain optical detector arrays, operated at bias voltages compatible with CMOS, may eliminate… More

72725-Scintillating and wavelength shifting fibers have increasingly demonstrated advantages over traditional radiation detection/tracking for high energy and nuclear physics research. High internal gain optical detector arrays, operated at bias voltages compatible with CMOS, may eliminate… More

78147S High-resolution tracking detectors based on silicon CCDs and Active Pixel Sensor (APS) arrays have been valuable tools in Nuclear Physics research, and have contributed to major discoveries. APS mega pixel arrays for fine granularity tracking have already demonstrated advantages over CCDs,… More

Many NASA space and Earth programs in the infrared range 1060-1550 nm are limited by the detector performance that require long exposure time due to their low sensitivity and/or high noise. Efficient, single-photon counting in the infrared providing short exposure time and large area for increased… More

Many NASA space and Earth programs in the infrared range 1060-1550 nm are limited by the detector performance that require long exposure time due to their low sensitivity and/or high noise. Large format infrared photon counting arrays with ranging capability would provide a valuable tool to many… More

Long range, RF space communications do not meet anymore the bandwidth requirements or power constraints of future NASA missions. Optical communications offer the potential to dramatically increase the link bandwidth and decrease the emitter power. High-bandwidth, long-range optical communications… More

High-resolution tracking detectors based on Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology have been valuable tools in Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics research, and have contributed to major discoveries. However, their integration time, radiation length and readout rate is a limiting factor for the… More

Laser optical communications offer the potential to dramatically increase the link bandwidth and decrease the emitter power in long-range space communications. Newest system designs require photon-counting arrays operated at high detection efficiency, tens of picoseconds temporal resolution, and… More

This proposal responds to the Army's effort to fuse image intensification with infrared technologies and to rapidly meet warfighter's protection needs. Small, lightweight, low cost, high-sensitivity solid-state infrared cameras widely disseminated on the battlefield would revolutionize land warfare.… More

Long-range optical telecommunications (LROT) impose challenging requirements on detector array sensitivity at 1064nm and arrays timing bandwidth. Large photonic arrays with integrated beam acquisition, tracking and/or communication capabilities, and smart pixel architecture should allow the… More

Geiger mode avalanche PhotoDiodes (GPDs) are being used in latest LADAR receiver designs. Current GPD based FPAs require multiple laser pulses to validate the target and additional off-chip processing to produce range images with low false alarm rate and in real-time. The goal of this program is to… More