We provide advanced optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical
and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”)
of complex products such as optical communication components, modules and sub-systems,
industrial lasers, medical devices and sensors. We offer a broad range of advanced
optical and electro-mechanical capabilities across the entire manufacturing
process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management,
manufacturing, complex printed circuit board assembly, advanced packaging, integration,
final assembly and test. Although we focus primarily on low-volume production
of a wide variety of high complexity products, which we refer to as “low-volume,
high-mix,” we also have the capability to accommodate high-volume production.
Based on our experience with and positive feedback we have received from our
customers, we believe we are a global leader in providing these services to
the optical communications, industrial lasers and automotive markets.
In many cases, we are the sole outsourced manufacturing partner used by our
customers for the products that we produce for them. The products that we manufacture
for our OEM customers include:
optical communications devices, such as:
selective switching products, such as reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers
(“ROADMs”), optical amplifiers, modulators and other optical components
and modules that collectively enable network managers to route voice, video
and data communications traffic through fiber optic cables at various wavelengths,
speeds, and over various distances;
tunable lasers, transceivers, and transponders that eliminate, at a significant
cost savings to the service provider, the need to stock individual fixed wavelength
optical transceivers and transponders used in voice and data communications
networks; and
active optical cables providing high-speed interconnect capabilities for data
centers and computing clusters, as well as Infiniband, Ethernet, fiber channel
and optical backplane connectivity;
solid state, diode-pumped, gas and fiber lasers (collectively referred to as
“industrial lasers”) used across a broad array of industries, including
semiconductor processing (wafer inspection, wafer dicing, wafer scribing), biotechnology
and medical device (DNA sequencing, flow cytometry, hematology, antibody detection),
metrology (instrumentation, calibration, inspection), and material processing
(metal, polymer, textile drilling and cutting, annealing, marking, engraving,
and welding); and sensors, including differential pressure, micro-gyro, fuel
and other sensors that are used in automobiles, and non-contact temperature
measurement sensors for the medical industry.
We also design and fabricate application-specific crystals, lenses, prisms,
mirrors, laser components and substrates (collectively referred to as “customized
optics”) and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz,
and synthetic fused silica glass products (collectively referred to as “customized
glass”). We incorporate our customized optics and glass into many of the
products we manufacture for our OEM customers, and we also sell customized optics
and glass in the merchant market.
We believe we offer differentiated manufacturing services through our optical
and electro-mechanical process technologies and our strategic alignment with
our customers. Our dedicated process and design engineers, who have a deep knowledge
in materials sciences and physics, are able to tailor our service offerings
to accommodate our customers’ complex engineering assignments. Our range
of capabilities, from the design of customized optics and glass through process
engineering and testing of finished assemblies, provides us with a knowledge
base that we believe often leads to improvements in our customers’ product
development cycles, manufacturing cycle times, quality and reliability, manufacturing
yields and end product costs. We offer an efficient, technologically advanced
and flexible manufacturing infrastructure designed to enable the scale production
of low-volume, high-mix products, as well as high-volume products. We specialize
in complex prototype and new product introduction services, with specialized
resources to meet customers’ quick-turn printed circuit board assembly
(“PCBA”) and early stage manufacturing requirements. We have a dedicated
engineering team to support the advanced optical packaging needs of our customers’
cutting edge products, which allows them to accelerate development and time-to-market
for such products. We often provide a “factory-within-a-factory”
manufacturing environment to safeguard our customers’ intellectual property
by physically segregating certain key employees and manufacturing space from
the resources we use for other customers. We also provide our customers with
a customized software platform to monitor all aspects of the manufacturing process,
enabling our customers to remotely access our databases to monitor yields, inventory
positions, work-in-progress status and vendor quality data in real time. We
believe there is no other manufacturing services provider with a similar breadth
and depth of optical and electro-mechanical engineering and process technology
capabilities that does not directly compete with its customers in their end-markets.
As a result, we believe we are more closely aligned and better able to develop
long-term relationships with our customers than our competitors.