This machine was designed and built to pick, place, and actively align a 100-micron wide laser diode to a silicon substrate. The servo-controlled, vision-assisted alignment required a placement accuracy of +/-3 microns. Once the diode was placed into position it was aligned into its angular position by the integrated precision rotary stage and vision system.

 

The system was custom designed and built for an optical drive company. It operated in a class 500 clean-room, and performed its pick, place, and alignment operation in an average cycle time of 4 seconds per part. The picture quality of this machine is intentionally set low at the request of our customer.