A high-power DIC microscope and two motorized fiber probes on one stage.
Inspect a chip under the microscope, move it under the fibers with one command, and couple light into it, without moving the sample between instruments. When a device underperforms, see why without moving the chip.
The microscope and the fiber probes share one lift platform and one reference point. Focusing the microscope on the chip sets the fiber height, and every position is remembered, so moving between inspecting and probing never means starting over.
Move the chip's corner under the laser fiber, using the side-view camera. This is the chip's zero coordinate.
Type in the coupler coordinates from your chip design. The main motors bring it under the probes.
Motorized micrometers find the optimal coupling point automatically.
One click lifts the probes and carries the chip under the microscope, focused on the same spot. One click brings it back.
The same find-and-transfer principle behind our patented AFM station, now applied to fiber-to-chip coupling.
Choose the imaging you need. Every configuration is built on the same base station.
The base station: dual motorized XYZ fiber probes, paired or fully independent · main motorized stage with joystick · vacuum chuck on a rotary stage · custom probe holders · Python control software with full source code included and licensed to the buyer.
Nine motorized stages at 0.1 µm resolution.
| Samples | Silicon chips under 0.5 mm thick, on a vacuum chuck that holds wafers up to 100 mm diameter |
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| Chip area | Up to 30 × 40 mm with the DIC microscope; up to 40 × 90 mm with camera-only configurations |
| Microscope | Olympus DIC, brightfield and darkfield, motorized nosepiece |
| Objectives | 5X, 10X, 50X, 100X |
| Fiber probes | Two, each on motorized XYZ micrometers (Newport DC servo, USB), 12 mm travel per axis |
| Probe modes | Paired fibers on one stage at any spacing, or two fully independent stages |
| Fiber angle | Built into the glass fiber block (8° face). Holders for standard fiber arrays cut at 8° or any angle on request |
| Side-view camera | 8X zoom, 38X–300X, tilts from vertical to horizontal |
| Cameras | 4K HD |
| Software | Python GUI, saved coordinates, automated alignment search. Full source code included and licensed to the buyer |
| Supplied by the user | Laser source, detector or power meter, A/D interface. The software is ready for your detector. |
From the chip's circuit to the detector signal. Click any image to see it full size.
The probe angle is built into our glass fiber block, so the holder simply clamps it upright. No tilt stage, no goniometer.
Using standard V-groove fiber arrays? We cut holders by wire EDM to fit them, at 8° or any angle you specify. Send us your array's drawing.
Holders swap with one thumb screw and relocate on registration pins.
Find it under the microscope. Move it under the fibers.
Each station is built to order, with delivery within 4 weeks of order.
Request a quote, or request the full user's manual with setup, alignment and software details.
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