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Photonics Alignment Solutions - 13949 Systems for Fiber Optic Applications

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PI offers a great variety ofinnovative solutions for testing and fabrication of MEMs and photonics de- vices. Products range from automated 6D alignment systems for industrial automation tosimple devices for labo-ratory test setups. Piezo drives make possible rapid scanning with sub- millisecond response.

Photometers Automation

Piezo Actuators Nanopositioning &Scanning Systems Active Optics / Steering Mirrors Tutorial: Piezo- electrics in Positioning Capacitive Position Sensors Piezo Drivers & Nano-positioning Controllers

Applications Applications include auto-

Hexapods /Micropositioning
Microrobot meets its industrial cousin: here at the OFC 2002 in the USA. PI‘s F-206 Hexapod, foreground, uses built-in, high-speed, fiber-array alignment routines to optimize photonic device coupling for manufacturing. Pick-and-place of the parts to align is handled by aFANUC industrial robot (background). The entire pro-cess is controlled by sequencing software from L-3 Communications Analytics.

mated alignment of collimated fibers or arrays, and test systems for MEMS and multi- channel waveguides. The following pages showbut a few examples ofthe system solutions that PI has developed for the photonics market.

Photonics Alignment Solutions

Rapid XYZ Photo-meter Nano-Aligners

Motion Controllers Ceramic Linear Motors & Stages Index

High-PrecisionPhotonics Device Alignment Collimator Alignment Fiber-ArrayAlignment

Fast response of closed-loop piezoscanners like the NanoCube ® allows rapid mapping of the entire cou-pling cross-section of optical components for fast localization of features like the point of maximumtransmissivity. Full scanning eliminates spurious lock-on to local maxima. The F-130 XYZ fiber alignment system allows a fullscan of a fiber optic device in just a few seconds; thesystem features 1 nm piezoelectric resolution and 15 mm travel range.

Optical Device Testing MEMS High- Precision Position- ing/Alignment

6D Microrobots High-Resolution Actuators

Fiber Alignment Laser Tuning FBG Writing Fiber Stretching Optical Switches Beam Stabilization Micromachining andAssembly

Variety of hexapod 6D alignment systems, for taskslike industrial micro-assembly of fiber optic devices PIhas over 15 years development experience with 6D Hexapod designs. PI offers a variety of internal and external photome-ters with bandwidths up to 5 kHz. High bandwidthmeans that data is synchronized with the motion, speeding the alignment process. Variety of closed-loop linear actuators with travel ranges to 50 mm and resolutions better than 50 nm,for automation of photonics packaging and testing operations.

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