Markets
Four places these components earn their mass.
The common thread is a system where size, weight and power are already spoken for, and where a sensing component has to justify every gram and every milliamp it takes.
Defense & UAV
- Altimeter < 25 g
- LiDAR < 250 g
- Rangefinder < 120 g
On an unmanned platform the sensing budget is decided before the sensor is chosen. A 25-gram altimeter and a 250-gram LiDAR are not marketing numbers; they are what determines whether the capability flies at all.
There is a second reason this market is in front of us. Programs building autonomous platforms are actively working to reduce dependence on Chinese-origin optoelectronic components. Our manufacturing partners produce in Taoyuan, Taiwan — an allied, non-PRC source with an established commercial export history to U.S. and European customers.
- Terrain following
- Obstacle detection
- Precision landing
- Allied sourcing
SATCOM & radar
- AESA T/R Ku-band, 32 ch
- Power amplifier X-band, 200 W
- PA / LNA Ku & Ka-band
Flat-panel terminal and phased-array production runs into the same two problems: RF front-end lead times, and finding a second source that is not in an exposed jurisdiction. The T/R modules, power amplifiers and PA/LNA we supply sit in exactly that gap.
Power amplifiers in particular have been called out by integrators as a persistent long-lead category.
- Phased array
- LEO terminals
- Second sourcing
Commercial & industrial
- Rangefinder 30–10,000 m
- Wavelength 1.5 µm
- Mass < 120 g
Surveying, infrastructure inspection, mining and long-range industrial measurement, where ten kilometres of range in a hand-portable or drone-mounted package is the whole product requirement.
These programmes tend to run at volumes that reward a manufacturer certified to an automotive quality standard rather than a low-volume specialist.
- Surveying
- Inspection
- Industrial measurement
Robotics & sensing
- IR diodes 808–940 nm
- Packaging Hermetic TO-CAN
- Supply level Die or device
For teams building their own optical assemblies, the useful thing is not a finished module — it is a reliable emitter at the right wavelength, in a package that survives the environment, from a source that will still be there in three years.
We can supply at whichever level fits: bare die, packaged device, or finished module.
- Proximity sensing
- Ranging
- Detection
- Component supply
Not on this list?
The question we can answer fastest is a specific one.
If your application is not one of the four above, the useful thing to send is the constraint rather than the category: what you are measuring, over what distance, inside what mass and power budget, in what environment.
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
If you have a sensing or ranging problem and a set of constraints, that is enough to start. Send the requirement and we will come back with what is possible, what is not, and what it would take.