This research from the University of Rochester not only promoted the development of physics, but also furthered the development of quantum devices. Avalanche photon detector achieves laser pointer technology breakthrough. With the development of artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous driving, the wide application of lidar in the civilian field has been promoted. The global market capacity of automotive lidar is expected to reach at least 70 billion US dollars from 2018-2025.
As everyone knows, the core key component of Lidar is the chip-level avalanche photon detector. As an important core device in the optoelectronic information industry, an avalanche photon detector capable of single-photon detection that has been independently developed based on the combination of industry, university, and research institutes in Heilongjiang Province has achieved a technological breakthrough, filling a gap in the domestic industry and breaking similar foreign chip products. The monopoly position will lay a solid international competitive advantage for the rise of the automotive lidar industry.
According to the relevant person in charge, this type of detector has a wide range of application fields, such as fluorescence imaging, deep space detection, laser pointers radar, aerospace, intelligent military, high-end medical, biomedical, atmospheric detection and space weather, etc. In particular, it has an irreplaceable core role in the emerging technology industries such as automobile driverless, quantum communication, quantum key distribution, and robot vision that are about to emerge on a large scale.