US optical devices company Kasalis announced this week it had introduced its Pixid 700 platform for manufacturing and aligning optical devices.
The Pixid 700 offers optional 5-nanometre linear and o.2-radian (μrad) angular resolutions as well as increased customisation and process flexibility, improved micro-optics features, and others features.
The solution’s software framework also includes a node-based architecture to produce prototypes quickly and seamlessly transfer projects to mass production.
The company’s Pixid series produces modules with the highest level of clarity in optics technologies in the industry, the company said, adding some of the world’s top brands and products use the system to align and assemble their optical solutions.
Kasalis, a subsidy of Jabil Inc, the world largest provider of manufacturing, design, and engineering tools for the medical sector, designed the solution for creating optics with complex light paths requiring, multiple channel, directional, and lens alignments.
The system plans to introduce new methods for producing technologies such as virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices, vehicle display projection systems, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) tools.
Justin Roe, Co-Founder and President of Kasalis, said at the time he was looking ahead to see how markets were evolving, adding,
“Our groundbreaking Pixid 700 platform creates more flexibility in the design of next-generation technologies to optimize optical devices and processes efficiently, cost-effectively and at higher volume”
The announcement comes as firms create innovative manufacturing platforms and solutions for the growing optics industry. Dutch smart glass lens maker Luxexcel recently partnered with Swiss lensmaker Optiswiss AG on the former’s VisionPlatform 7 to manufacture 3D prescription smart glass lenses for augmented reality (AR) devices in Basel, Switzerland.
In the optic lens market, Kopin Corp revealed in June it had developed fully-plastic, aspherical Pancake optics for XR devices, surpassing current products with a thinner form factor and minimal birefringence.
