Adept Technology Inc. (San Jose, CA) now offers the NanoLine series of high-speed positioning tools for fiber optic assembly applications. Nanoline will serve manufacturers of fiber optic components for fiber optic communications networks. The series includes both motorized and piezo stages running under a single controller. This allows quicker testing, alignment and assembly of fiber optic components. The tools target such fiber optic assembly tasks as pigtailing, fiber-to-fiber alignment, fiber array bonding and passive fiber device assembly.
"Until now, the fiber optic industry has had to build fiber optic alignment and assembly tools from generic, limited throughput, limited duty-cycle components," says Joe Campbell, vice president of marketing. "Our NanoLine stages meet the automation demands of the fiber optics community for size, speed, travel, resolution and robustness."