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MEMS
TECHNOLOGY LICENSED BY AXSUN TECHNOLOGIES FROM SANDIA NATIONAL
LABS
LIVERMORE, Calif. and BILLERICA, MA. — The Department of
Energy's Sandia National Laboratories/California is licensing its
technology in a unique, emerging MEMS technique known as LIGA to
photonic subsystem provider AXSUN Technologies.
AXSUN's Agile Photonic Subsystems utilize micro-mechanical alignment
structures that are fabricated utilizing the LIGA process. These
subsystems manipulate light, through tuning or switching signals
at the optical layer, allowing existing optical telecommunications
networks to increase functionality, performance and reliability
to meet the explosive growth in data traffic.
This high performance photonic integration platform transitions
optical packaging out of the transistor age, allowing the integration
of nearly any optical function onto one high performance substrate.
AXSUN’s highly integrated subsystems are an order of magnitude
smaller than conventional offerings, assembled on a scalable automated
manufacturing line, and allow more flexible and programmable system
operation.
Based in Greater Boston's High Tech Corridor, AXSUN Technologies
intends to establish a LIGA foundry in the Livermore area to meet
its own needs for photonic packaging, and to provide foundry services
to external customers.
"Expertise in LIGA design and fabrication is not widely available." stated
James Lewis, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at AXSUN. "Sandia
was a clear leader in this field, and an exceptional development
partner for this key enabling technology."
Jill Hruby, who manages Sandia development of LIGA (a German acronym
for lithography, plating and molding), said she believes AXSUN's
foundry will provide the "first LIGA commercial production
in the United States."
LIGA enables micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) made of
robust metals, with dimensions ranging from a few microns to millimeters.
Contact:
Nancy Garcia, Sandia Public Affairs
(925) 294-2932
negarci@sandia.gov
James G. Lewis, VP, AXSUN Technologies
jlewis@axsun.com
(978) 262-0049 x102
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About AXSUN Technologies
AXSUN Technologies develops and manufactures a new class of photonic subsystems
that provide higher levels of performance to telecommunications equipment
manufacturers. The company’s agile optical products are central to
the transformation of the Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) infrastructure
from an inflexible, constrained network to one that is agile and programmable
at the optical layer. Information about AXSUN is available at www.axsun.com.
About Sandia
Sandia is a multiprogram DOE laboratory, operated by a subsidiary of Lockheed
Martin Corp. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif.,
Sandia has major research and development responsibilities in national security,
energy, and environmental technologies. Sandia National Laboratories' News Center
is at http://www.sandia.gov/
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