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ECCN reference · Category 6: Sensors and lasers

ECCN 6A002

Optical sensors and equipment, and "components" therefor, as follows

Systems, equipment and components. Reasons for control: NS (National security), MT (Missile technology), CC (Crime control), RS (Regional stability), AT (Anti-terrorism), UN (United Nations embargo).

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  • NS (National security): NS applies to entire entry.
    Country Chart column NS2: a license is needed to 156 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Republic of, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • MT (Missile technology): MT applies to optical detectors in 6A002.a.1, or a.3 that are "specially designed" or modified to protect "missiles" against nuclear effects (e.g., Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), X-rays, combined blast and thermal effects), and usable for "missiles".
    Country Chart column MT1: a license is needed to 193 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, South, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Republic of, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • RS (Regional stability): RS applies to 6A002.a.1, a.2, a.3 (except a.3.d.2.a and a.3.e for lead selenide based focal plane arrays (FPAs)), .c, and .f.
    Country Chart column RS1: a license is needed to 193 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, South, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Republic of, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • CC (Crime control): CC applies to police-model infrared viewers in 6A002.c.
    Country Chart column CC1: a license is needed to 158 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Republic of, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • AT (Anti-terrorism): AT applies to entire entry. No Country Chart country has an X in column AT1; the destinations this control targets are under “Not decided by the Country Chart” below.
  • UN (United Nations embargo): UN applies to 6A002.a.1, a.2, a.3 and .c. See § 746.1(b) for UN controls

Not decided by the Country Chart: Covered Donetsk region of Ukraine (DNR), Covered Luhansk region of Ukraine (LNR), Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Korea, North, Syria. These destinations are under embargoes or other special controls in 15 CFR Part 746, which require a license for most items whatever the chart shows. Russia and Belarus also have broad Part 746 controls in addition to the chart.

A blank on the Country Chart is not permission to ship. End-use and end-user rules (15 CFR Part 744), embargoes and sanctions (Part 746), and the parties to the transaction still apply. Use the check above for your item and country.

List-based License Exceptions

As the entry lists them. Each exception has its own conditions in 15 CFR Part 740, and § 740.2 bars or limits most of them for Russia, Belarus, Country Group D:5 and embargoed destinations, so an entry’s “Yes” does not mean it is available everywhere.

  • LVS: $500 for 6A002.f.
  • $3000; except N/A for MT and for 6A002.a.1, a.2, a.3, .c, and .f.
  • GBS: N/A

Items in 6A002

The controls often apply to some paragraphs only, so check the full paragraph, for example 6A002.a.

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  • 6A002.a Optical detectors as follows:
  • 6A002.a.1 "Space-qualified" solid-state detectors as follows:
  • 6A002.a.1.a "Space-qualified" solid-state detectors having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.1.a.1 A peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 10 nm but not exceeding 300 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.1.a.2 A response of less than 0.1% relative to the peak response at a wavelength exceeding 400 nm;
  • 6A002.a.1.b "Space-qualified" solid-state detectors having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.1.b.1 A peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 900 nm but not exceeding 1,200 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.1.b.2 A response "time constant" of 95 ns or less;
  • 6A002.a.1.c "Space-qualified" solid-state detectors having a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,200 nm but not exceeding 30,000 nm;
  • 6A002.a.1.d "Space-qualified" "focal plane arrays" having more than 2,048 elements per array and having a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 300 nm but not exceeding 900 nm;
  • 6A002.a.2 Image intensifier tubes and "specially designed" "components" therefor, as follows:
  • 6A002.a.2.a Image intensifier tubes having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.2.a.1 A peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 400 nm but not exceeding 1,050 nm;
  • 6A002.a.2.a.2 Electron image amplification using any of the following:
  • 6A002.a.2.a.2.a A microchannel plate with a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of 12 µm or less; or
  • 6A002.a.2.a.2.b An electron sensing device with a non-binned pixel pitch of 500 µm or less, "specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' other than by a microchannel plate; and
  • 6A002.a.2.a.3 Any of the following photocathodes:
  • 6A002.a.2.a.3.a Multialkali photocathodes (e.g., S-20 and S-5) having a luminous sensitivity exceeding 350 µA/lm;
  • 6A002.a.2.a.3.b GaAs or GaInAs photocathodes; or
  • 6A002.a.2.a.3.c Other "III-V compound" semiconductor photocathodes having a maximum "radiant sensitivity" exceeding 10 mA/W;
  • 6A002.a.2.b Image intensifier tubes having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.2.b.1 A peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,050 nm but not exceeding 1,800 nm;
  • 6A002.a.2.b.2 Electron image amplification using any of the following:
  • 6A002.a.2.b.2.a A microchannel plate with a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of 12 µm or less; or
  • 6A002.a.2.b.2.b An electron sensing device with a non-binned pixel pitch of 500 µm or less, "specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' other than by a microchannel plate; and
  • 6A002.a.2.b.3 "III/V compound" semiconductor (e.g., GaAs or GaInAs) photocathodes and transferred electron photocathodes, having a maximum "radiant sensitivity" exceeding 15 mA/W;
  • 6A002.a.2.c "Specially designed" "components" as follows:
  • 6A002.a.2.c.1 Microchannel plates having a hole pitch (center-to-center spacing) of 12 µm or less;
  • 6A002.a.2.c.2 An electron sensing device with a non-binned pixel pitch of 500 µm or less, "specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' other than by a microchannel plate;
  • 6A002.a.2.c.3 "III-V compound" semiconductor (e.g., GaAs or GaInAs) photocathodes and transferred electron photocathodes;
  • 6A002.a.3 Non-"space-qualified" "focal plane arrays" as follows:
  • 6A002.a.3.a Non-"space-qualified" "focal plane arrays" having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.a.1 Individual elements with a peak response within the wavelength range exceeding 900 nm but not exceeding 1,050 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.3.a.2 Any of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.a.2.a A response "time constant" of less than 0.5 ns; or
  • 6A002.a.3.a.2.b "Specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' and having a maximum "radiant sensitivity" exceeding 10 mA/W;
  • 6A002.a.3.b Non-"space-qualified" "focal plane arrays" having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.b.1 Individual elements with a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,050 nm but not exceeding 1,200 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.3.b.2 Any of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.b.2.a A response "time constant" of 95 ns or less; or
  • 6A002.a.3.b.2.b "Specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' and having a maximum "radiant sensitivity" exceeding 10 mA/W;
  • 6A002.a.3.c Non-"space-qualified" non-linear (2-dimensional) "focal plane arrays" having individual elements with a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,200 nm but not exceeding 30,000 nm;
  • 6A002.a.3.d Non-"space-qualified" linear (1-dimensional) "focal plane arrays" having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.d.1 Individual elements with a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 1,200 nm but not exceeding 3,000 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.3.d.2 Any of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.d.2.a A ratio of 'scan direction' dimension of the detector element to the 'cross-scan direction' dimension of the detector element of less than 3.8; or
  • 6A002.a.3.d.2.b Signal processing in the detector elements;
  • 6A002.a.3.e Non-"space-qualified" linear (1-dimensional) "focal plane arrays" having individual elements with a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 3,000 nm but not exceeding 30,000 nm;
  • 6A002.a.3.f Non-"space-qualified" non-linear (2-dimensional) infrared "focal plane arrays" based on 'microbolometer' material having individual elements with an unfiltered response in the wavelength range equal to or exceeding 8,000 nm but not exceeding 14,000 nm;
  • 6A002.a.3.g Non-"space-qualified" "focal plane arrays" having all of the following:
  • 6A002.a.3.g.1 Individual detector elements with a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 400 nm but not exceeding 900 nm;
  • 6A002.a.3.g.2 "Specially designed" or modified to achieve 'charge multiplication' and having a maximum "radiant sensitivity" exceeding 10 mA/W for wavelengths exceeding 760 nm; and
  • 6A002.a.3.g.3 Greater than 32 elements;
  • 6A002.b "Monospectral imaging sensors" and "multispectral imaging sensors", designed for remote sensing applications and having any of the following:
  • 6A002.b.1 An Instantaneous-Field-Of-View (IFOV) of less than 200 µrad (microradians); or
  • 6A002.b.2 Specified for operation in the wavelength range exceeding 400 nm but not exceeding 30,000 nm and having all the following:
  • 6A002.b.2.a Providing output imaging data in digital format; and
  • 6A002.b.2.b Having any of the following characteristics:
  • 6A002.b.2.b.1 "Space-qualified"; or
  • 6A002.b.2.b.2 Designed for airborne operation, using other than silicon detectors, and having an IFOV of less than 2.5 mrad (milliradians);
  • 6A002.c 'Direct view' imaging equipment incorporating any of the following:
  • 6A002.c.1 Image intensifier tubes having the characteristics listed in 6A002.a.2.a or 6A002.a.2.b;
  • 6A002.c.2 "Focal plane arrays" having the characteristics listed in 6A002.a.3; or
  • 6A002.c.3 Solid state detectors specified by 6A002.a.1;
  • 6A002.d Special support "components" for optical sensors, as follows:
  • 6A002.d.1 "Space-qualified" cryocoolers;
  • 6A002.d.2 Non-"space-qualified" cryocoolers having a cooling source temperature below 218 K (−55 °C), as follows:
  • 6A002.d.2.a Closed cycle type with a specified Mean-Time-To-Failure (MTTF) or Mean-Time-Between-Failures (MTBF), exceeding 2,500 hours;
  • 6A002.d.2.b Joule-Thomson (JT) self-regulating minicoolers having bore (outside) diameters of less than 8 mm;
  • 6A002.d.3 Optical sensing fibers specially fabricated either compositionally or structurally, or modified by coating, to be acoustically, thermally, inertially, electromagnetically or nuclear radiation sensitive.
  • 6A002.f 'Read-Out Integrated Circuits' ('ROIC') "specially designed" for "focal plane arrays" specified by 6A002.a.3.

Source

Commerce Control List, 15 CFR Part 774, Supplement No. 1 (official text on eCFR), as of August 21, 2026, 1:45AM EDT. Commerce Country Chart, Supplement No. 1 to Part 738, as of August 21, 2026, 1:45AM EDT.

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