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Vanguard Automation signs Agreement to join the Swedish High-Tech Group Mycronic
Karlsruhe, March 22, 2024 – Vanguard Automation GmbH, a developer of technology and automated equipment for 3D nano-printing of photonic interconnects, has signed an agreement to join Mycronic, a Swedish high-tech group, listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. Mycronic is...
Plug-and-Play Fiber-Coupled Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source via Photonic Wire Bonding
Single-photon sources are important components in the field of quantum information science. They are good candidates for the creation of critical building blocks for quantum key distribution, quantum computing, and quantum networks. During the last two decades,...
Vanguard Automation delivers Advanced Photonic Integration & Packaging Capabilities to Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems
Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-MRI program, the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) -Nanofabrication Facility at Harvard University has acquired Vanguard Automation’s SYMPHONY, a fully automated photonic integration and packaging solution...
Photonic integration and packaging with Photonic Wire Bonding and facet-attached micro-optical elements
September 13, 2023: PIC Magazine – Issue 3, 2023 The rapid growth of photonic integrated circuits is driving the need for fast innovation, and this is made possible by the development of Photonic Wire Bonding (PWB), which creates low-loss, 3D free-form connections...
Cryogenic Optical Packaging Using Photonic Wire Bonds
In this paper, our partner at UBC, Professor Lukas Chrostowski and team use photonic wire bonding (PWB) to make reliable and efficient optical connections between single mode fiber (SMF) and silicon photonic circuits down to 970 mK. The results presented show that...
Rochester Institute of Technology and Vanguard Automation Bring Advanced Photonics Packaging Capability to Rochester for High Performance Computing, Communication And Sensing
Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology has acquired Vanguard Automation’s SONATA 1000, a fully automated 3D Lithography system for enabling photonic integration and packaging via Photonic Wire Bonding and Facet-Attached Micro...
Vanguard Automation and POET Technologies Collaborate on Solutions for Co-packaged Optics and AI-ML Applications
Karlsruhe, Germany and Toronto, Ontario, March 6, 2023 — Vanguard Automation GmbH, the developer of 3D-nanoprinted Photonic Wire Bond and Micro-Lens technology and manufacturer of software-defined equipment for photonic integration and packaging and POET Technologies...
Light: Advanced Manufacturing accepted article preview 13 January 2023 3D-printed facet-attached microlenses for advancedphotonic system assembly
Wafer-level mass production of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) has become a technological mainstay in the field of optics and photonics, enabling many novel and disrupting a wide range of existing applications. However, scalable photonic packaging and system...
Photonic Wirebonds (PWB) and 3D-printed freeform-lenses allow to fabricate widely-tunable, record-low “Sub-kHz-linewidth external-cavity laser (ECL) with Si3N4 resonator used as a tunable pump for a Kerr frequency comb
Combining optical gain in direct-bandgap III-V materials with tunable optical feedback offered by advanced photonic integrated circuits is key to chip-scale external-cavity lasers (ECL), offering wideband tunability along with low optical linewidths. External feedback...