Lightpath (& Horizon Photonics) Technologies
Cro2laser; Why not?
Re: your - Is this how it works? by: cro2laser 4/17/00 9:15 pm Msg: 20632 of 20642
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Why not?
>>" LP manufacturing platform passes passive optical components to a Horizon Photonics manufacturing platform where they are mounted by machines - that utilize a proprietary micro-fixture design
and robotic platform process. This automated process allows for micro-optics to be mounted in small
transferable fixtures that are processed in arrays and converted into a variety of optical components and
component subsystems. We now have arrays of collimators, arrays of isolators all waiting to be used to assemble a really cool LambdaRouter?"<<
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That doesn't sound stupid, to me. Just daydreaming? Now that Lightpath's and Horizon's technologies are being combined, why not develop the machinery and staff to perform all functions at all locations, as follows:
Lightpath has secured a five year lease for an additional 17,000 square foot building in Albuquerque that is immediately being converted to a class 10,000 clean-room manufacturing facility. This building will house the capacity build-out for our existing optical component products based on the automated laser fusion and polishing processes. In addition, LightPath has leased 11,000 square feet of office and lab space in Warren, New Jersey, where the Company will intensify development of its optical switch technologies.
biz.yahoo.com
Horizon's manufacturing lines are housed in a 4,000 square-foot clean room certified better than Class 10,000. The manufacturing lab contains four dual beam laser welding stations, six sub-micron alignment engines, and three robotic assembly stations. In addition, the clean room facility has separate rooms dedicated to the precision automated dispensing of adhesives and solders and the precision dicing of optical materials. In addition to the clean room, Horizon maintains approximately 1,000 square feet of semi-clean space dedicated to product design and research and development.
Horizon's tool and die operation is located in approximately 700 square feet of separate shop and assembly area. The shop supports Horizon's product design and automation efforts and contains equipment such as a 3-Axis CNC vertical milling center, Hardinge precision tool room lathe, and a Browne and Sharpe surface grinder. Capabilities include metrology and inspection, part prototype fabrication for proof of concept, and machine building from prototype to production line.
horizonphotonics.com
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More daydreaming? Perhaps the facility size, staff and capabilities at Horizon Photonics could be expanded, as well. That sounds good to me - automated, proprietary production of the essential building blocks of the global fiber optics telecom build-out. Oh, oh! That wouldn't be getting close to a monopoly, would it?
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