👽 Scifi alien #OpticalTechnology starts with... vertical integration!
Say hi to our newest belle of the ball: a wafer-sized #photonic chip integrated in a custom module with fiber arrays, thermal and mechanical stress dissipation, hundreds of actuators, and about as many wirebonds 🤯
How would YOU start to make this one? Design the photonic circuit then let someone else worry about interconnections later? Figure out where to put the wirebond pads and arrays first then let a design house work from the outside-in? Settle on the device specs then fill in all the details around that?
Our answer: we do it all ourselves, all at once 💪
When your photonic integrated circuits #PICs designer, your packaging expert, your assembly guru, and your end-user are all sitting in a room together, that's when the magic happens 🎆 By having a full suit of experienced engineers taking care of each step of the production process, you unlock the full power of PICs in ready-to-test, easy-to-scale devices. We have all of these in-house, so we can maintain full control over the process.
Depending on the application, we can optimize the waveguides, layout the circuitry, and choose the right type of packaging and assembly options for the device, all in one meeting room 🤝 Then we fabricate the chip in the next building over. Then we put everthing together in the next room over-- fiber array to PIC coupling, PIC to PIC, standard or specialty fiber arrays, integration of electronics with PIC submounts, microfluidic and optofluidic interfaces, we don't discriminate except for performance 🔆
We've seen firsthand how this approach can transform projects, so we stick to the method and believe in it. Want to see it transform your own developments? We are always happy to hear from you over LinkedIn, through our website, or even by pigeon post if necessary 🕊️
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Director - Electronics Center of Excellence | Advanced Electronic Engineering Services | PCB and FPGA Embedded System Development | Optic Sensing Solutions | Innovative Monitoring & Digitalization
3moWelcome to the team Jose!