Engineering Expertise

ProPhotonix can offer superior performance and knowledge in both the laser and LED fields. With over fifteen years of engineering expertise, the ProPhotonix team has an innovative portfolio with advanced skills in areas such as custom designed laser diode assemblies, optical modeling, and advanced thermal management.

 
Custom Designed Laser Diode Assemblies
Optical/Thermal Modeling
Advanced LED Illuminators

Custom Designed Laser Diode Assemblies

If you need something special, ProPhotonix designs and manufactures custom laser diode modules, laser assemblies and electro-optical sub-assemblies based on semiconductor laser diode technology, which deliver performance and manufacturing efficiencies to OEM companies. Custom products include temperature stabilized laser modules, laser alignment systems, circular beam laser diode modules and elliptical beam modules, receptacle packaged laser diodes and fibre pigtailed laser diodes.

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Optical and Thermal Modeling

 ProPhotonix engineers possess application specific expertise in the computer simulation of optical systems and thermal management. This expertise enables ProPhotonix to produce state-of-the-art optical devices, and allows our customers a significant reduction in product-to-market time.

 

The design and optimization of LEDs is performed using ZEMAX optical design software. This application enables our engineers to streamline standard processes in order to quickly create prototypes for our customers.

Strong optical modelling capabilities and years of engineering and manufacturing experience for laser modules and LED illuminators make ProPhotonix a capable, flexible and responsive partner for the design and manufacture of custom OEM illumination Solutions

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 Advanced LED Illuminators

ProPhotonix is an innovative designer and manufacturer of LED-based illumination solutions for our global OEM clients. When designing custom LED-based illuminators, we do not limit ourselves. We draw from our design and expertise tool kit on a case-by-case basis, incorporating various types of  building blocks to construct the most suitable, cost-effective solution for the application at hand.

 


With chip-on-board methods, LEDs can be placed on circuit boards in high density arrays, allowing for compact, extremely bright illuminators.

Our success with LED illuminators is due to specialized expertise in a number of areas, including the selection and/or design of thermally efficient substrates, the design of lensing and diffuser systems, the design of cooling systems for extremely high power illuminators, and the science of LED lifetime.
We are cognizant of the newest and upcoming LED semiconductor technologies, and incorporate them into our modules in order to provide unique, state-of-the-art illuminators for high-performance applications. In the end, we devote significant resources to the perpetual improvement of the optical and thermal performance of our LED array technologies.

 


These miniature ringlights are an example of the highly specialized custom LED array designs provided by ProPhotonix. The demanding brightness and uniformity specifications for this pen-sized hand-held dental tool were particularly challenging due to the small size requirement. Chip-on-board technology provided the solution. An individual ellipsoidal lenslet is positioned over each of the twelve blue-emitting LED chips. The lenses are integrated into a custom-designed injection-molded plastic circular unit.

The truly unique advantage offered by ProPhotonix is that we are not just an LED array maker, but also a diversified optics company. With our LED modules, customers benefit from the company's overall optics expertise in lens design, lasers and other illumination technologies. Strong optical modeling and design skills enable us to overcome the various difficulties inherent in the engineering of LED illumination. For example, drawing on our design and modeling resources, we are able to produce LED modules that generate illumination fields with truly superior uniformity, as required for applications in machine vision, medical photonics and security ID.

More information on LED modules and the our COBRA™ Linescan Illuminators

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