Laser Waveguide Optical Systems Design and Manufacture
The systems
design and manufacturing concepts are simple to implement and
are applicable to a wide range of optical and laser systems over
a very broad waveband range. The concepts are readily applied to
both one-off research prototypes and to low cost mass production
of fully developed systems. We provide a design
and manufacturing capability which enables customers to convert
their new optical circuit concepts, or their existing free-space
designs, into compact, rugged, high performance integrated optic
systems. In practice the manufacturing approach utilises
precision CNC milling (or alternative etching or 3D printing
techniques) to create alignment features for discrete components
in the surface of a dielectric substrate. Light is then guided
through the circuit of components via hollow waveguides. The
hollow waveguides are created in the surface of the substrate as
square section channels in conjunction with a lid - which forms
the forth upper wall of all the waveguides. Compared with solid
core waveguides or optical fibres hollow waveguides have very
broad waveband high power transmission characteristics making
the applicable to a very wide range of applications.
Instead of
examining 200,000 cases -- as other program often do -- HGOSD
has a binary search option that divides the design space into
logical units and quickly evaluates where the best solution is
to be found. In this case there are numerous trade-offs that
determine the optimal page size, focal length, lens shape,
storage medium thickness, etc. We have used it to develop a
25:1 zoom lens with excellent performance, with no starting
design needed. The design of this optical interface
therefore, plays an important role in determining the overall
system performance. Most optical engineers, on the other
hand, frequently fail to appreciate the effects of optical noise
in their systems, leading to non-optimal performance. The
effects of finite optical power, vignetting, standard substrate
thickness, and non-zero lens mass were included and we found an
optimum aggregate data rate of nearly 2 Gbps was possible using
lenses with 5mm focal length and numerical aperture = 0.60.
In which vertical market(s) would you classify the end-users of
this technology. Nothing excites investors, customers, and
internal development teams more than seeing an idea in action.
Assuming the use of line-illumination along a disk radius and a
1D parallel detector array, we developed a formalism for
characterizing the performance of such parallel access memory
systems. Our design and development service includes concept
development, optical design, mechanical design, and opto-electronics
integration. This dependence is particularly acute in the
case of parallel access optical memory for which the performance
demands placed upon the optical interface subsystem are even
more severe. BJ-MAX Team has the capabilities and tools to
design and build complicated custom Electro-Optical systems.
Many of these trade-offs have been quantified. The difference
between an idea that gets ignored and one that gets attention is
a working prototype. How do you differentiate it from other
similar technologies? The effects of lens aberrations were
characterized in terms of space variant inter-symbol
interference and were converted into limitations on parallelism.
Other software packages offer a global optimization feature,
which can find a solution if you let it run long enough.
While expertise in lens design never hurts, our product can be
used by relative novices.
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hollow waveguide
integrated optic circuit
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