Automatic Optical Waveguide Alignment System for Splitter/Coupler, WDM, AWG Manufacturing

Auto-Align System for WDM, AWG and Splitter/Coupler manufacuturing, Double 6 axis auto alignment Optical alignment and packaging system

High Precision and Maneuverable Auto-Alignment Machine for WDM, AWG manufacturing, 2 side 6 axis auto alignment with 10nm minimum accurate

The Sunma instrument company develops a new generation of manual and auto aligner for planar lightwavecircuit(PLC)manufacturing. This product line features cost effective, high precision motion control capability with a compact mechanical design.
High quality components are used to assemble the system to guarantee high precision and repetitive motion applications.
The precision of linear motion motion (Translational) X, Y, Z and rotationl motion (Rotational)Pitch, Yaw, the Roll is 0.01 micron and 0.02 degree respectively.
All the machinical handlers are our own proprietary designs and made of high quality stainless steal to achieve motion and temperature difference stability.
Handlers for fiber coupled array are equiped with touch sensors for accurate spacing control.
Versatile motion control software is both user friendly and powerful.
Its modular design makes system upgrade and modification very simple. Moreover, alignment procedure customerization is made possible by the "workflow editor". Hence, users only just need to add and subtract the preinstalled functions and input the corresponding parameters to establish a particular alignment process.
2-day Free training, Installation &Calibration all for Free
Advantages:Trademarked Technology-5 Rs
Real 6 degrees of freedom
Real Parallelism
Real Seamless Coupling
Real Gap Control
Real Performance

Features:

Low-cost, compact and fast Auto-Alignment machine for PLC pigtailing
Fast 1st light searching by near IR Camera(visible band to 1330nm) & rapid and automatic alignment
Fast automatic pitch-yaw parallelism adjustment
Accurate gap distance control by means of touch sensor
Precision motion platform of Newport delivers high accuracy and repeatability
Powerful software for easy operation
Total alignment time:～125s
In addition to automatic, as well as semi-automatic and manual options

Applications:

• Silicon waveguide alignment/coupling
• 1xN Splitter
• 2xN splitter
• Arrayed waveguide grating
• Collimator
• Special/customized optical fiber and other related optical waveguide alignment

System confguration:

 

Specifications:

 

Translation（X-Y-Z axis）
Component	Sunma VP-25XA or VP-25XL
Travel Range（mm）	XYZ: 25mm
Resolution（μm）	0.1 (VP-25XA), 0.05 (VP-25XL)
Bi-directional Repeatability（μm）	0.15
On-axis Accuracy（μm）	1
Maximum（mm/s）	25
Rotation（PitchθX-YawθY-RollθZ axis）
Component	Newport CMA-PP or TRA-PPD
Travel Range（mm）	θX:6mm, θY:6mm, θZ:12mm (±3°)
Resolution（μm）	0.3 (CMA-PP), 0.1 (TRA-PPDL)
Bi-directional Repeatability（μm）	2
Maximum（mm/s）	0.4
Tooling
（Patent Pending）Touch sensor embedded Universal Fiber Array Holder × 2
（Patent Pending）Touch sensor accuracy(μm)< 2
Universal 1×N Splitter Holder（1×2 to 1×64）× 1
Vacuum AWG Holder × 1
Vision
Camera Type	CCD×2, IR Cam×1 for 1st light searching
Lighting	Software Controlled LED Bar Light
Machine vision	Image ssen through PC Vision Card
Image Resolution	<3μm/Pixel（depends on Mag. X of lens）
Motion	100mm（according to request） 6 or 13mmmanual XY stage