PI Fast Multichannel Photonics Alignment Engine for Silicon Photonics Probing, Test & Packaging

Alignment times are reduced by up to two to three orders of magnitude by replacing the formerly required sequential iterations with one-step parallel optimizations in multiple degrees of freedom. This provides significant economic benefits for manufacturers and end-customers alike. Alignments are highly repeatable and tracking across the multiple couplings is real-time.

Judge's comment: "With its high-speed, closed-loop nanopositioners with 100-µm travel in each direction combined with a long-travel positioner with an optional hexapod for automatic angular optimization, this fast alignment engine for silicon photonics probing features overall impressive performance, such as a 2-nm positioning resolution and fine alignment times of less than 2 seconds."

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