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Active Alignment Is Here to Stay

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Adrian C. Goding

As long as light sources, amplifiers and regenerators remain expensive, the benefits of active alignment’s lower insertion losses will continue to outweigh its costs. And are its disadvantages really so bad? Active alignment is a ubiquitous process in fiber optic component assembly that sets the photonics industry apart from the semiconductor and electronics industries with which it is most often compared. For any company accustomed to applying the highly flexible and scalable electronics and semiconductor automation processes to photonics, the necessary evil of active alignment is...Read full article

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