Scantinel Photonics, a FMCW LiDAR startup, has demonstrated the first fully solid-state parallelized FMCW 5D+ LiDAR system based on Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC). First fully solid-state parallelized FMCW 5D+ PIC Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology is becoming widely used in various applications such as navigation, robotics, remote sensing, advanced.
Groundbreaking scanning lidar silicon chip for autonomous vehicles
The PIC provides 256 channels and allows full performance long-range (>300m) solid-state scanning.
The development and fabrication of the PIC was made in collaboration with imec.
A CMOS-compatible fabrication of the PIC at wafer-level dramatically lessens cost, size, weight, and power for a lidar system. It can be scaled for high volume applications, such as autonomous vehicles.
Utilising standard CMOS fabs gives the company the advantage of building FMCW Lidar on a chip at a very attractive and competitive cost. Our unique Optical Enhanced Array (OEATM) is combining the PIC with Scantinel’s own developed optics, which is certainly a groundbreaking development, said Vladimir Davydenko, one of the co-founders of Scantinel.