21st of October: Day of Photonics @ CITC

On the 21st of October 1983, the General Conference of Weights And Measures adopted the value of 299,792.458 km/s for the speed of light. From that year onward on the same day the international Day of Photonics is celebrated. Light is very obvious in peoples houses, like in your TV, smartphone and general lighting. But an increasing amount of advanced applications depend also on "light" or more generally speaking: "photonics". Think of communication, smart medical devices and maybe in the near future optical computing and automotive radar (lidar). A large number of industries underpin these activities, mostly not know to the general public. The Day of Photonics brings these activities more to the foreground, not in the least by introducing the topic also on primary and secondary schools in order to persuade children to pursue an education and subsequent career in this field.

How fitting this is for CITC that this day coincides roughly with the arrival of our Tegema table-top photonic assembly setup. This marks the physical beginning of our collaboration with Tegema, PI and Phix to investigate and optimize active optical alignement processes for photonic packaging. The table-top consist now mainly of a Hexapod and Nanocube from PI, but will be extended next year with more additional advanced process modules. Later this year in November we expect to receive a Finetech Fineplacer Sigma advanced die-attach machine that will enable us among others to do advanced and accurate flip-chip die-attach. Combined we'll be able to help a lot of customers to optimize their packaging solution before bringing it to production.

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