About Voyant Photonics
Voyant Photonics makes lidar sensors based on frequency-modulated continuous-wave technology, known as FMCW. Unlike conventional lidar, which times short laser pulses, FMCW sweeps the laser frequency and measures the shift in the returned light, which can also give the speed of each point directly. The company builds this on photonic chips, meaning optical circuits made on silicon, and its products include the Carbon sensor. It is based in New York.
Voyant Photonics was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States. It is listed under Photonic Computing, ASICs.
Compute Technologies
- Photonic Computing
- ASICs
What Voyant Photonics works on
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
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