Toshiba’s Light Sensor Paves the Way for Cheap Lidar
Toshiba has developed a compact, highly efficient silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM) that enables non-coaxial Lidar to employ off-the-shelf camera lenses to lower costs and help bring about solid-state, high-resolution Lidar.
The technology boosts light-cell efficiency, enables high-res Lidar using commercial camera lenses
Photo: Toshiba Toshiba’s prototype Lidar. Left, a Galvano scanner used for proof of concept. Right, a commercial telephoto lens and SiPM circuit board. Toshiba aims to shrink the circuit board to a system chip that will fit in the palm of your hand by fiscal 2022.