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Low Light, Short Wave Infrared, Solid State Photodetector

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00167-11-P-0406
Agency Tracking Number: N111-032-1767
Amount: $79,866.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N111-032
Solicitation Number: 2011.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-08-12
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
1400 Coney Island Avenue
Brooklyn, NY -
United States
DUNS: 134248751
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Rafael Ben-Michael
 Sr. Research Scientist
 (718) 951-8021
 rafi@ampti.net
Business Contact
 Avery Kornbluth
Title: COO
Phone: (718) 951-8021
Email: averyk@ampti.net
Research Institution
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Abstract

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of the breakthrough technology of internal Discrete Amplification to design and develop low light level single photon sensitive short wave infrared photodetector. These short wave infrared photodetectors will have very high gain, ultra low noise, high detection efficiency and low reset time in the spectral range of 1 m to 2.2 m. The technology of internal Discrete Amplification allows one to achieve the combination of high speed, very high gain, ultra low noise and continuous operation with no dead time between the biasing pulses. The proposed detectors would have performance parameters significantly superior to those of conventional avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes, and will be designed to meet the low light level photodetector requirements. The expected performance parameters include greater than 20% photon detection efficiency, reset time of less than 150 ns, gain of 100,000 to 1,000,000 and excess noise factor of less than 1.1. It will also have flexibility in the choice of active area size and shape, including the ability to create multi-element photodetector arrays. These new capabilities could lead to important advances in low light level detection, sensing and tacking applications.

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