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Single Photon Counting LIDAR Sensor
Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: 80NSSC18P2023
Agency Tracking Number: 184343
Amount:
$124,999.00
Phase:
Phase I
Program:
SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code:
S1
Solicitation Number:
SBIR_18_P1
Timeline
Solicitation Year:
2018
Award Year:
2018
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date):
2018-07-27
Award End Date (Contract End Date):
2019-02-15
Small Business Information
15985 Northwest Schendel Avenue, Suite 200
Beaverton, OR
97006-6703
United States
DUNS:
124348652
HUBZone Owned:
No
Woman Owned:
No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged:
No
Principal Investigator
Name: Vinit Dhulla
Phone: (971) 223-5646
Email: vinit@voxtel-inc.com
Phone: (971) 223-5646
Email: vinit@voxtel-inc.com
Business Contact
Name: Debra Ozuna
Phone: (971) 223-5646
Email: debrao@voxtel-inc.com
Phone: (971) 223-5646
Email: debrao@voxtel-inc.com
Research Institution
N/A
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.
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