Physik instrumente: PINovAlign Integrated Photonics Probe and Test Engine

Developed to support the rapid growth of generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) and the adoption of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) across data center infrastructure, Physik Instrumente’s PINovAlign is a production-scale solution for PIC probe and test at a critical time of technological growth and buildout. PINovAlign was designed and engineered from inception to address the unique demands of production-scale testing of PICs critical to high-performance computing and networking solutions. Using a combination of mechanical, control, and algorithmic technologies, PINovAlign is a precision, automated robotic test solution. At the core of PINovAlign are disruptive, patent-pending photonics probe and test algorithms that, through internal tests and in the field, have proven to achieve signal-finding alignments and optimization with orders-of-magnitude improvements over previous state-of-the-art methods. These techniques are the first to efficiently support parallel signal finding of photonics inputs and outputs through an intermediate waveguide. 

Judge’s comment: “This is a very interesting product, particularly in how fast it can align.”