March 2003 Meeting
The Optical Society of San Diego is pleased to present this evening's
speaker:
Bruce Hueners, Vice President of Marketing for Palomar Technologies.
"Automating Fiber Optic Component Assembly"
Bruce Hueners, Vice President of Marketing
Palomar Technologies
http://www.bonders.com
ABSTRACT: Currently, optoelectronic component
manufacturers are utilizing automated equipment to process and assemble
multi-chip eutectic die attach packages in a single pass on precision
die attach equipment with mechanized substrate and die handling. In
the future, other processes that currently require sub-micron resolution
and involve complex sets of iterative alignment steps, such as fiber
alignment and active sub-component alignment, will be performed by
automated systems. This equipment will incorporate several technological
advances that reduce assembly time and increase yield. The package
accounts for 60 to 80% of current manufacturing expenses in optoelectronic
component assembly and advances in automation will be essential to
reducing component costs in the optical network.
Speaker: Bruce Hueners holds a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering from U.S.C., an M.B.A. from Indiana University and a Certificate
from the Executive Program for Scientists and Engineers at UCSD. As
a Process Engineer at General Electric, he developed mechanized processes
for high-volume optoelectronic assembly. After joining Hughes Aircraft
/ Palomar Technologies he served in roles as a mechanical designer,
applications engineer and project manager, traveling extensively to
production facilities throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia over the
last 20 years. More recently, he has specialized in technical marketing
to the broadband communications industry. Bruce has authored several
papers on high precision, vision-guided automated equipment and processes
and is currently a member of IMAPS, SMTA, The IEEE and the Optical
Society of America.
Review to follow soon.
