LuminWave, a LiDAR chip and module enterprise, demonstrated China's first 200-line pure solid-state image-grade Lidar (LiDAR) based on silicon optical OPA at CIOE this month. Back at CES in January, LuminWave unveiled the world's smallest MicroLiDAR sensor chip based on self-developed light chip technology, which is used for autonomous driving near blind repair and gesture recognition. According to 36kR, LuminWave completed angel round financing of tens of millions led by China Science and Technology Innovation Star and followed by Feng Rui Capital last year.
It is known that the laser radar (LiDAR) prototype displayed by Lomicro Technology is a pure solid-state solution using a self-developed silicon optical OPA chip without any moving components, with a resolution of up to 200 lines, much higher than the current market resolution of 16/32/64 lines of mechanical scanning LiDAR. While realizing high line count resolution, Luwei Technology effectively controls the cost of image-level LiDAR by independently developing silicon optical OPA chips and optical solutions, which can provide highly cost-effective LiDAR solutions for autonomous driving manufacturers.
It is widely believed in the industry that in addition to the indispensable role of lidar in L3 and above autonomous driving sensor scheme, cameras, millimeter wave and other sensors are also very important, and multi-sensor fusion may become the ultimate scheme of autonomous driving. According to the introduction, in order to better realize the solution of multi-sensor fusion, Lomicro Technology is committed to achieve and continuously improve the imaging level resolution of LiDAR products generation by generation, and the use of self-developed chip based LuminScan? The beam control system realizes the functions of dynamic selection scan (ROI) and programmable resolution, so that the Lidar can be more perfect for all kinds of sensor fusion solutions.
"We believe that the evolution direction of LiDAR technology will be modular miniaturization, chip integration, and affordable pricing. Based on our own silicon optical OPA and FMCW chips, we can greatly improve the performance and cost competitiveness of our LiDAR products, and free our products from the limitation of using special control components in our solutions. "Based on the $400 billion silicon semiconductor ecosystem, silicon photonics technology has grown rapidly in recent years. LuminWave, based on the silicon optical chip technology path, will be able to make image-grade LiDAR the same size and price as a camera, bringing Lidar-based 3D sensing to a truly diverse range of applications."
Currently, LuminWave's LiDAR and MicroLiDAR product lines, which are pure solid-state imaging grade, are optimized for autonomous driving /ADAS scenarios, including driverless passenger and commercial vehicles. Such as logistics, cleaning, selling, loading, connection and other types of vehicles. For limited scenario autonomous driving applications, Luwei Technology has been cooperating with a number of autonomous driving solution companies. MicroLiDAR, launched earlier this year, is now in mass production. Thanks to its advantages of miniaturization, low cost, and built-in AI algorithm, the use of Microlidar has been expanded from autonomous driving to human-computer interaction scenarios in consumer electronics.
It is understood that Luo Wei Technology is the first display based on silicon optical OPA chip Lidar manufacturers. In the world, silicon photonics technology is a very cutting-edge technology field, and there are only a handful of companies that own this technology and realize lidar products. Chinese technology enterprises, represented by Luowei Technology, have begun to emerge in this field.
