Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory has developed laser radar systems using timing circuitry combined with Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GM-APD) to produce reliable three-dimensional images. The Laboratory has recently been working with silicon-on-insulator technology to create a vertically integrated sensor array (VISA) that stacks an array of GM-APDs on top of two layers of timing circuitry. Through extensive laboratory testing and simulation of this device, the world's first image from a vertically integrated array was produced.

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Creator

• Wolfson, Deanna L.
• Hanson, Helen A.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 06C023M

Advisor

• Iannacchione, Germano S.

Year

• 2006

Center

• MIT Lincoln Laboratory-Lexington, Massachusetts Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• MIT

Date created

• 2006-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Applied Physics
• Physics

Rights statement

• In Copyright