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ficonTEC supplies semi-automatic and fully automated production and testing systems, concentrating on the optical industry, laser diode manufacture, optoelectronics, medical technology, security and military engineering and telecommunications.

Learn more about the products, solutions and services of ficonTEC, a worldwide supplier, on these pages. We develop individual automation solutions in microsystems engineering that can increase the efficiency and precision of your production processes.

We have moved!

Achim – February 2010, ficonTEC Service GmbH is proud to announce that it has moved its corporate headquarter and production to a new facility. As of February 1st the new address is Desmastrasse 3-5, 28832 Achim, Germany.

The increasing number of inquiries for solutions of automated photonic assembly projects demanded for a more efficient and lager manufacturing space. The new facility provides sufficient capacity to additionally cope with the boost from the introduction of ficonTEC’s latest innovative machine. The unique in the market versatile micro assembly platform was just recently presented during the Photonics West 2010.

ficonTEC’s product solutions are based on flexible, modular platforms for a wide range of applications from standard to customized R&D and manufacturing requirements, reflecting its device physics knowledge and process expertise.

As advertised

Bremen, January 2010,

WE FOCUS ON MICRO ASSEMBLY AND TEST

The january 2010 issue of Laser Focus World is the start of ficonTEC's new advertisement campaign.

Assembly of High-Power Laser Diodes is automated for the first time

Bremen - September 2009, Automated High Power Laser Assembly with Active Optical Alignment recently installed at Fraunhofer IZM

BMBF funding supports the competitiveness of German laser companies.

The joint research project „PrOpSys“ (production technology of optical systems for high power diode lasers), funded by the German federal ministry of education and research (BMBF) reports an exceedingly successful intermediate result: With the help of a novel assembling system, fully automated assembly and adjustment of a high power diode laser were demonstrated for the very first time. This opens up the way to a significant decrease of manufacturing costs in the highly competitive high power diode laser market.

Due to the fact that high power diode lasers are used as light source in many other industries like automotive industry, plant machinery and engineering or telecommunication, these lasers play a pivotal role in the fast-growing market of optoelectronic products. Up to now, these high power diode lasers still need to be manually assembled in complex adjustment and assembly steps. „To safeguard our competitive position, we have to automate our processes“, mentioned project coordinator Dr. Jens Meinschien during the presentation. „With the completion of the demonstrator system, we did a significant step to reach the upcoming volume markets“.

For automatic adjustment, firstly the laser diode bar is activated. Thereupon, the collimator lens is located in front of the diode laser with the help of a micrometer exact positioning system. This is done so that the connected metrology can collect and evaluate the laser radiation. The innovation of this development lies in the fact that several positions of the collimator lens can be tested in front of the laser diode bar. This test comes about by means of especially developed methods of digital image processing for analysis of the intensity distribution of the laser radiation. As result of this image analysis, the optimized position for the lens is defined by the help of appropriate alignment algorithms. Finally, the lens is fixed in an exact position in front of the laser diode bar.

The joint research project “PrOpSys” is aimed at developing the technical bases for mass-production suited designs and the associated, fully automatic manufacturing technology for micro optical systems and high power diode laser respectively. Using interdisciplinary research of companies and research institutes, this complex challenge could have been solved:

+ Project coordinator is LIMO Lissotschenko Mikrooptik GmbH (Dortmund). LIMO deals with all aspects of diode laser design and investigates associated manufacturing steps.

+ ficonTEC Service GmbH (Bremen) focuses on the automation itself and machine concepts.

+ Artifex Engineering (Emden) manufactures optoelectronic components for monitoring and controlling diode lasers.

+ The main focus of the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT (Aachen,) is on alignment algorithms and assembly techniques.

+ The Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM (Berlin) concentrates on the mounting technology and reliability and tolerance analysis.

The introduced system has been assembled by ficonTEC and currently starts running at the Fraunhofer IZM. The institute serves as technology test bed for development of further optimized adjustment and assembling processes for mass-production suited manufacturing of optoelectronic products.

The joint research project „PrOpSys“ is funded by the German federal ministry of education and research within the programme „Optical Technologies“ with EUR 1.9 Mill.

For more information, please contact: Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Vahrenkamp, Tel: 04202/51160-42, vahrenkamp@ficontec.com