Aerotech: Photonics alignment platform

FiberMax is a second-generation 3-6 axis photonics alignment platform built on Aerotech’s proven ANT nanopositioning product line, designed for critical photonics alignment in a highly automated, 24/7 production environment with no compromise in speed, accuracy, and resolution.

Jul 1st, 2016

Photonics alignment platform

Photonics alignment platform

This highly reliable, unique drive and control technology ensures many years of maintenance-free service in a high throughput, 24/7 manufacturing environment. FiberMax noncontact direct-drive technology enables high-precision alignment without sacrificing production throughput. It is capable of 2 nm linear and 0.05 µrad rotary minimum incremental motion, with speeds to 400 mm/s, to meet the challenges of aligning next-generation photonics packages. The direct-drive technology employed in FiberMax offers a significant precision and throughput advantage over other alignment platforms.

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