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# “From autonomous vehicles to autonomous everything”: Voyant’s path to chip-scale FMCW lidar

December 03, 2025

Voyant’s incoming CEO Clément Nouvel talks to Electro Optics about why he took the job, and how fully-integrated FMCW lidar, built on silicon photonics, is moving up the scale. He maps out the technology’s path from autonomous automotive to autonomous everything.

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