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by Animats 3332 days ago
That's what Advanced Scientific Concepts uses in their high-end LIDAR units. That gets them the sensitivity needed for flash LIDAR with hundreds of meter range. There are people talking about doing the same job with CMOS technology, and that may well happen, but I don't think the CMOS people have comparable sensitivity yet. Fraunhofer is working on it.[1]

[1] http://www.ait.ac.at/fileadmin/mc/digital_safety_security/do...