VOXTEL, INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: S1
VOXTEL, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $124,999
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- S1
- Solicitation
- SBIR_18_P1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- OR
- Period
- 2018-07-27 → 2019-02-15
Description
<p>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.</p>