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FEATURE ARTICLE
November 2019
Market Trends in Automotive Lidar
As society considers a future with autonomous vehicles (AVs), lidar continues to be a hot topic. Since 2016, there has been huge interest in automotive lidar, which has resulted in investments and...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Market_Trends_in_Automotive_Lidar/p5/a65302
FEATURE ARTICLE
June 2023
On-Chip Lidar Sheds Cost, Size, and Power Use to Expand Adoption
There are a number of applications for which 3D sensing is rapidly emerging as a critical sensing modality. 3D and 4D sensors are arising in autonomous vehicle applications because they are propelled...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/On-Chip_Lidar_Sheds_Cost_Size_and_Power_Use_to/p5/a68983
FEATURE ARTICLE
June 2019
Integrated Photonics Looks to Advance Safety for Lidar
The history of radar (radio detection and ranging) dates back to the 1880s when renowned German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. Based on the...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Integrated_Photonics_Looks_to_Advance_Safety_for/p5/a64791
FEATURE ARTICLE
January 2022
Advancements in Diode Lasers Fuel Automotive Lidar
lidar for autonomous vehicles debuted in 2007 as an enabling sensor technology for robotaxis and robotruck development. Within the last five years, however, the technology has trended toward broader...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Advancements_in_Diode_Lasers_Fuel_Automotive_Lidar/p5/a67732
NEWS
September 2019
High-Tech Lidar: The Future Looks Fly
Over 50 years ago, light detection and ranging technology (lidar) found its earliest applications in military targeting and meteorology research, and famously, in mapping the surface of the moon in...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/High-Tech_Lidar_The_Future_Looks_Fly/p5/a65101
FEATURE ARTICLE
July 2017
Military-Standard Lidar Driving Advances in Autonomous Vehicles
The defense industry, with its high performance and rugged environmental requirements, has long driven development of state-of-the-art technology platforms that have trickled down into commercial and...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Military-Standard_Lidar_Driving_Advances_in/p5/a62307
FEATURE ARTICLE
December 2021
How Single-Photon Detection Powers Countless Applications
The technologies we use in our everyday activities to monitor the world around us — to develop new medicines or to produce the materials we use to build homes, offices, and factories —...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/How_Single-Photon_Detection_Powers_Countless/p5/a67646
FEATURE ARTICLE
February 2025
Silicon Photonics Brings a Collaborative Lidar-Radar Relationship into View
For decades, end users and systems designers have valued radar technology for its reliability. Especially in adverse weather conditions in which sensors based on other modalities are apt to fail,...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Silicon_Photonics_Brings_a_Collaborative/p5/a70612
FEATURE ARTICLE
November 2021
A Wealth of Photonic Solutions Fuels Momentum for Automotive Lidar
The dream of fully autonomous, driverless cars remains just that for now — a vision of a future that will require considerable effort from engineers and programmers to realize. But other,...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/A_Wealth_of_Photonic_Solutions_Fuels_Momentum_fo/p5/a67537
FEATURE ARTICLE
March 2021
How Far Down the Road Is the Autonomous Vehicle?
First conceived by editors of Scientific American magazine, the dream of self-driving cars — known today as autonomous vehicles (AVs) — recently passed its 100-year anniversary. With the...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/How_Far_Down_the_Road_Is_the_Autonomous_Vehicle/p5/a66856
FEATURE ARTICLE
December 2017
Onboard Lidar Detects Turbulence, Volcanic Ash Near and Far
The accurate measurement of relative air speed, temperature and pressure is essential for the flight control system to operate safely and economically within the operational envelope and set flight...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Onboard_Lidar_Detects_Turbulence_Volcanic_Ash/p5/a62913
FEATURE ARTICLE
February 2023
A New Alexandrite Laser Drives More Sustainable Atmospheric Science
As anyone who has ever worked with an alexandrite laser can attest, its lasing medium demands respect. “It has about every problem a laser engineer can imagine,” said Josef Höffner,...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/A_New_Alexandrite_Laser_Drives_More_Sustainable/p5/a68639
FEATURE ARTICLE
July 2008
The Expanding Role of Lidar at NASA
The growing importance of laser-based remote sensing instruments to NASA scientists and space mission designers is not surprising. Lasers offer clear advantages over passive and active radio-wave...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/The_Expanding_Role_of_Lidar_at_NASA/p5/a34305
NEWS
October 2017
Industry Pushes New Technologies, Applications for Lidar
Digitalization of the world requires detection tools able to recognize objects and precisely measure distances quickly. lidar-based monitoring systems are a key part of this current technological...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Industry_Pushes_New_Technologies_Applications/p5/a62675
NEWS
January 2020
Lidar: A Technology at Use in Daily Life
lidars provide point cloud distribution — to represent the 3D environment — using the backscattering of a laser beam from the target surface. They have long been used for purposes of...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_A_Technology_at_Use_in_Daily_Life/p5/a65437
NEWS
October 2019
Lidar and Optical V2V: On the Road to Autonomous Vehicles
Two different optical technologies — one already deployed, the other still on the drawing board — promise to ease autonomous vehicle integration. lidar, the optical analog to radar, is...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_and_Optical_V2V_On_the_Road_to_Autonomous/p5/a65163
FEATURE ARTICLE
August 2010
Lidar Reveals Hidden Aftershock Hazard in Haiti
Rescue agencies the world over have rallied together in a bid to bring relief to the thousands of people left injured, homeless and without food or sanitation in the wake of the Haiti earthquake,...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_Reveals_Hidden_Aftershock_Hazard_in_Haiti/p5/a43366
FEATURE ARTICLE
November 2009
For Lidar, Many Happy Returns
For light detection and ranging (lidar) scanners, the returns are in – and they’re good. Innovations have made lidar scanners, which emit laser pulses and capture the returning light to determine...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/For_Lidar_Many_Happy_Returns/p5/a40294
FEATURE ARTICLE
December 2020
Lidar and Data Fusion Increase AI Performance
Imaging lidar sensors are one of the primary components in systems used for perception tasks in autonomous vehicles. The 3D data generated by lidar while a vehicle is in motion is considered useful...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_and_Data_Fusion_Increase_AI_Performance/p5/a66490
NEWS
September 2019
Lidar: The Long and Winding Road to AV Adoption
Tech advancements, especially in disruptive technologies, often drive down crooked, poorly mapped roads. AT&T’s Picturephone was introduced to huge fanfare at New York’s 1964...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Lidar_The_Long_and_Winding_Road_to_AV_Adoption/p5/a65130