SBIR Phase II: Micromachined Planar Single Pixel Photomultiplier Tube (PMT)

SBIR 第二阶段：微机械平面单像素光电倍增管 (PMT)

• 批准号: 9901808
• 负责人: Charles Beetz
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: NANOSCIENCES CORP
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-15 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9901808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Micromachined; Planar

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project focuses on producing a miniature photomultiplier for detection of light signals traveling on fiber-optic networks and for use as on-board high speed optical detection for chemical sensing in lab-on-a-chip and DNA sequencing systems. Integrated optics for digital and analog data transmission and analog sensors can benefit from the high-speed miniature photodectors (1 GHz). Solid state detectors are available with very high bandwidth or high gain, but not both simultaneously. A high (1,000) detector operated at low power with high speed and large dynamic range, and that could be integrated onto a silicon circuit would have value, especially as a fiber-optic receiver and sensor. We propose a micromachined vacuum photomultiplier employing dynode secondary electron emission gain, a Planar Micromachined PhotoMultiplier Tube (PMPMT). Such a device would make a superior chip-scale integrable high gain fiber-optic (FO) receiver, capable of substantially lowering the power performance requirements of gigabit/s laser diode FO transmitters, the cost-barrier to ultra-high speed WAN networks. Such a device would also enable truly field portable test equipment for chemical, biochemical and medical diagnostics. If this project is successful it could usher in a revolutionary new fiber optic sensor for telecommunciations networks. Additional commercial applications exist in biomedical and chemical analysis labs-on-a-chip where a high speed optical detector can revolutionize rapid analyses such as DNA screening or chemical or toxin identification.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的重点是生产一种微型光电倍增管，用于检测光纤网络上传播的光信号，并用作芯片实验室和DNA测序系统中化学传感的机载高速光学检测。 用于数字和模拟数据传输的集成光学器件以及模拟传感器可以从高速微型光电探测器（1 GHz）中受益。固态探测器具有非常高的带宽或高增益，但不能同时具有这两种特性。 高（1，000）探测器在低功率下运行，具有高速度和大动态范围，并且可以集成到硅电路上，这将具有价值，特别是作为光纤接收器和传感器。 提出了一种利用二次电子发射增益的微机械真空光电倍增管，即平面型微机械光电倍增管（PMPMT）。 这种器件将成为一种上级芯片级可集成的高增益光纤（FO）接收器，能够显著降低千兆位/秒激光二极管FO发射器的功率性能要求，这是超高速WAN网络的成本障碍。 这种装置还将使化学、生物化学和医学诊断真正能够现场携带测试设备。 如果该项目成功，它将为通信网络带来革命性的新型光纤传感器。 其他商业应用存在于生物医学和化学分析芯片实验室中，其中高速光学检测器可以彻底改变快速分析，例如DNA筛选或化学或毒素鉴定。