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 programs 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, send the constraint rather than the category. What are you 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.
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