Voyant unveils Helium solid-state FMCW LiDAR built on silicon photonics PIC
Voyant Photonics has introduced Helium, a fully solid-state FMCW LiDAR platform based on a silicon photonics photonic integrated circuit, targeting applications in industrial automation, robotics and mobile autonomy.
The Helium platform integrates a dense two-dimensional photonic focal plane array with fully on-chip 2D beam steering, eliminating MEMS, mirrors and other mechanical scanning components. Built on the architecture of Voyant’s Carbon line, Helium brings full two-dimensional beam steering to a validated silicon photonics platform, enabling high-resolution planar sensing with pixel counts ranging from around 12,000 to more than 100,000.
The software-defined LiDAR supports adaptive scan patterns, region-of-interest control and multi-sensor configurations that combine wide field-of-view short-range sensing with narrow field-of-view long-range operation. The matchbox-sized prototype weighs under 150 g and occupies less than 50 cm³, with field of view and range configurable through custom optics.
