Space Debris Mapping with Photonic Integrated Circuit Lidar

Developing next-generation chip-scale lidar technology for detecting and mapping small space debris in-situ from CubeSats.

  • First SPIDAR chips take shape in the cleanroom

    First SPIDAR chips take shape in the cleanroom

    Work in SPIDAR’s fabrication work package is in full swing. Following the arrival of our first GaAs epitaxial wafers earlier this year, the team has been developing the core fabrication processes for our photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the Micronova cleanroom at Aalto University. Process development is the unglamorous but essential foundation of any new…

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Aalto University

Aalto University is a public research university in Finland. Famous for the close collaboration between the scientific, business and arts fields, it is intended to foster multi-disciplinary education and research.

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