Under the ægis of the Microelectronics Research Factory of Germany (FMD, Forschungsfabrik Mikroelektronik Deutschland), Fraunhofer scientists and their partners have developed a high-resolution, wide-angle lidar system. For this project, the Ferdinand Braun Institute supplied a pulsed laser source including control electronics; Fraunhofer IMS (Institute for Microelectronic circuits and Systems) developed a trapping optics with preprocessing…