Photonics West

PI Exhibit at Photonics West 2023 in San Francisco

May 21, 2023

PI’s most important US event of the year, Photonics West, was a great success with an all-time record lead count with around 370 and many fruitful discussions with customers.

There were product demos for most of our product lines; including new air bearing-based photonics alignment capabilities and the introduction of the US-made, V-6x family of ball bearing rotation stages.

Lead distribution of the show by region

A “New Technologies” corner offered a sneak-preview of developments in the pipeline, such as Magnetic Levitation stages and high-force nanopositioning stages based on the V8 PiezoWalk technology. We would like to thank everybody from PI USA and PI Germany for supporting us and contributing to the show’s success.

We will upload the leads to CRM soon. 

List of Demos

Air bearings

  • NEW: XYZ A-142 mini stage with active fiber alignment 
  • NEW: 6-axis air bearing stack with active alignment and pivot point capability
  • 5-axis air bearing system with wafer

Mechanical stages

  • NEW: 3 sizes of the new V-6x ball bearing rotation stages 
  • V-855-based mini gantry for scanning and aligning pixels on an LED board 
  • 10-axis electronics board touch demo system

Fast steering mirrors

  • NEW: V-931 V/C steering mirror demo
  • S-335 to 8x8 fiber matrix laser demo

Microscopy / Life Sciences:

  • NEW: Fast focus demo with P-725 and V-308 PIFOCs
  • PINano platform demo
  • PIline microscope stage demo w/well plate and camera / monitor
  • PINano and several other piezo stages

Hexapods

  • NEW: H-840 with updated Marble Maze
  • H-811 hex-brain demo

NEW Technologies

  • MagLev technology demonstrator
  • XYZ N-332 PICMAWalk stage demo (technology demonstrator)
  • 6D-NanoCube alignment (technology demonstrator) 

Contact person: Stefan Vorndran, Vice President - Marketing

Written by Laura Früh on May 21, 2023