Optical Fiber Metalizer
The Optical Fiber Metalizer is a dedicated production coating tool for metallization of optical fibers, for use in a hermetically sealed opto-electric package. Designed for a small clean room footprint, this load lock system first cleans then applies a series of sequential coatings onto optical fiber. The goal of the multi-layer coating stack is to leave a thin layer of gold, uniformly distributed around the fiber so that it can be soldered into hermetically sealed packages.
Specifications
- Metal film stack of Titanium-Platinum-Gold and Titanium-Copper-Nickle
- Complete one button operation after load lock
- 20 minutes per cycle, pump to vent. 60 fibers per run
- A +/- 10% film uniformity. Film adhesion 1kg Bellcore pull test
Intlvac System Advantages
- Unprecedented high-volume throughput
- Low temperature deposition avoids damage of plastic on fibers
- Uniform coating around entire fiber for accurate fiber alignments
- Low target costs due to deposition material conveniently mounted on a ring on the magnetron guns
- Ring Array easily facilitates customized deposition
- Excellent adhesion strength resulting from Atomic Oxygen pre-clean
- Load Lock design allows for coating of jacketed and connectorized components
- Deposition Chamber utilizes a dry pump, elimination contamination
- A highly skilled individual is not required to operate the machine as the system is completely automated with an easy to use touch screen interface
- Small Cleanroom footprint