Question Corner

July 21, 2008

Since this blog is still fairly new, some of you may be a little shy. Please remember to post your name or username in the comments or email when asking us a quesiton. We would love to be able to refer you over to our site technicians to help answer your questions.

Anonymous asks, “What is POF cable?”
POF (Plastic Optic Fiber) is made of plastic instead of glass. It is usually larger than glass fiber and is used for much shorter runs. POF is mostly used in fiber optic lighting and medical imaging. Thanks for writing us!

Anthony from AZ asked, “How does a wafer inspection system use eye points to do alignment?”
We passed this question over to our semiconductor technician, Jason
On an eye point system a realtime image from the camera is compared to a stored image. It uses these images to find specific points on a wafer and then makes changes to the wafer position. By doing this, every wafer is precisely aligned the same causing less defects during processing.

Another Anonymous writes, “How many data streams can 1 cable hold?”
We would like our readers out there to get more involved in our blog, so please send in your answer to his question. Just leave the answer in the comments of this post. Thank you to our readers!


High-tech help for you

July 17, 2008

This is a brand new blog and we would like to really fill it up with lots of useful high-tech equipment information. If you have a topic you would like to hear about, a question for our tech team or would like us to write a review on a new product – send us your ideas.

We’re here to help. We have a great tech team of support technicians and engineer on site with knowledge of communications, semiconductors and fiber optics. We even have lots of manuals for all kinds of high-tech equipment.

Post your questions!