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Non-Avalanche Gain Detector for High-Resolution Single-Photon and Dual Mode Applications

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ0006-10-C-7376
Agency Tracking Number: B093-002-0461
Amount: $99,997.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA09-002
Solicitation Number: 2009.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-05-03
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-11-02
Small Business Information
12725 SW Millikan Way Suite 230
Beaverton, OR 97005
United States
DUNS: 124348652
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Shabbir Bashar
 Senior Engineer
 (971) 223-5646
 shabbir@voxtel-inc.com
Business Contact
 George Williams
Title: President
Phone: (971) 223-5646
Email: georgew@voxtel-inc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Future seekers of the future will need to allow for multiple targets and various advanced countermeasures, likely including a dual-mode component to do so. A Dual Mode Seeker (DMS) has at least an infrared (IR) Focal Plane Array (FPA) as well as an active means to capture target range and preferably 3-D imagery. Future technology insertion will benefit from a monolithic dual mode focal plane, wherein the optics, cryogenics, and electronics between both LADAR and passive infrared imaging are shared. The combination of the passive IR FPA image data and active range (LADAR) image will require 256 × 256 and larger array size, with low power consumption. In this Phase I SBIR project, Voxtel proposes to address the technology need by developing the design of a non-avalanche linear-mode InGaAs photodiode detector array, with GHz count rate, single photon counting operation, sensitivity from 950 to 1700 nm, and the capability for gain exceeding 106 at bias voltages of only 1 VDC, with sub-Poissonian shot noise performance. We will fabricate the detector using lattice-matched materials on InP, and will integrate the design with a segmented 8 × 8 element detector, fabricated using Voxtel’s existing process for back-illuminated mesa-diodes with integrated microlenses.

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