Optical assemblies and components manufacturer LightWorks Optical Systems Inc. has begun work on Lot IV of a production contract for specialized optics to be used by Maskless Lithography Inc. of San Jose, Calif.

Maskless Lithography, a manufacturer of direct-write digital imaging technology for printed circuit boards, will integrate the telecentric projection lenses designed by LightWorks Optical Systems into its line of recently developed imaging equipment.

The partnership will provide “significant cost and performance improvements to our manufacturing process, which has already made a positive impact on production yields,” said Maskless Lithography CEO William Elder.

Maskless lithography technology provides digital UV imaging capability that allows circuit designs to be traced and printed directly to the resist on copper-plated printed circuit board substrates.

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