FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Voyant
Photonics Launches Affordable CARBON LiDAR, With FMCW LiDAR Sensor on a
Chip
Compact
LiDAR-on-Chip Now Available for Order, Highlighting Innovation at CES
2025
New York City, December
30, 2024 -
Voyant Photonics is pleased to announce availability of “CARBON” FMCW
LiDAR sensor, featuring the world’s first truly effective and
affordable LiDAR on a chip with solid state beam steering. Carbon’s
highly integrated silicon photonic chip is fingernail-sized and
provides high-resolution, millimetre precision, object detection and
static/dynamic segmentation up to 200m – All that, at a fraction of the
cost of current best in class LiDAR makers.
Voyant has achieved this exceptional performance and affordability by
integrating optics on a LiDAR photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This
low-cost 4D LiDAR sensor was developed to revolutionize machine
perception capabilities in industrial, robotics and security
applications.
Instantly
Identify Any Moving Object on the Scene
Carbon uses Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Technology.
Unlike Time of Flight LiDAR, FMCW enables instant velocity at each
point on top of traditional distance, reflectivity and intensity
measurement. This provides ‘4D’ capability: providing high-fidelity
point cloud data with unparalleled accuracy, to give applications a
true real-time view of their environment, up to 20 times per second.
Instant velocity also enables vehicle ego-positioning capabilities
which is extremely efficient in GPS denied environments and potentially
making a high-end inertial measurement unit (IMU) substitutable.
Works
in Any Weather Condition, Immune to Retroreflective Objects
Voyant’s Carbon outperforms best-in-class Time of Flight (ToF) LiDAR in
operating through dust, fog, rain, and snow, and being immune to
sunlight interference – most notably at sunrise and sunset. The
technology is also invulnerable to highly-reflective objects,
particularly retroreflectors (such as street signs, traffic cones, and
safety vests), that suffer from blooming, blinding legacy time of
flight Lidars.
Despite weighing just 250g, the compact size Carbon is robust, with
IP67 dust and water protection, and strong shock and vibration
endurance. In addition, the low power required by FMCW laser technology
ensures eye safety.
High-Resolution,
Wide-Angle and Long Range
Carbon’s high resolution of native 128 lines per frame provides
camera-level resolution, and coupled with instant velocity measurement,
enables highly accurate detection and tracking of moving objects up to
200m away. The field of view is 45° vertical and 90° horizontal.
Maximum detectable radial velocity is 63 m/s (140 mph). The sensor’s
software-defined LiDAR (SDL) allows customers to modify frame rate and
adjust field of view during operation, to focus on a zone of interest
when and where it is needed and make any small object detectable and
classifiable.
Available
to Order Now
Voyant will attend CES 2025 and demonstrate Carbon at booth #3175 in
the LVCC, West Hall Vehicle – Tech and Advanced Mobility section. For
appointments contact CES@voyantphotonics.com.
Voyant’s groundbreaking Carbon LiDAR is available for order now, at
US$1,490 for single units, with volume pricing available, and a
two-year warranty. For more details, please visit https://www.voyantphotonics.com
About
Voyant Photonics
Voyant Photonics, a pioneering innovator in sensors, has developed and
brought to market unique chip-scale LiDAR sensing technology. Voyant
creates LiDAR-on-a-chip solutions for 3D sensing, providing competitive
performance at disruptive price, size, weight and power. Voyant uses
patented nano-optic approaches to provide a range of imaging sensors
for a variety of applications including autonomous vehicles, drones,
robotics and factory automation. Founded in 2018 by researchers from
Cornell and Columbia universities, Voyant has raised over $20m in
funding to date. Voyant is based in New York City. https://voyantphotonics.com/