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Efficient Low-Dark-Count Detector for Photon Counting
Award Information
Agency: Department of Commerce
Branch: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Contract: SB1341-08-SE-0665
Agency Tracking Number: 409-08
Amount:
$90,000.00
Phase:
Phase I
Program:
SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A
Solicitation Number:
N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year:
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Award Year:
2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date):
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Award End Date (Contract End Date):
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Small Business Information
12725 SW Millikan Way, Suite 230
Beaverton, OR
97005
United States
DUNS:
N/A
HUBZone Owned:
No
Woman Owned:
No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged:
No
Principal Investigator
Name: Andrew Huntington
Phone: (971) 233-5646
Email: andrewh@voxtel-inc.com
Phone: (971) 233-5646
Email: andrewh@voxtel-inc.com
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Research Institution
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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.
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