Photonics West 2024, the world's largest photonics exhibition held annually in San Francisco, USA, will take place from January 30 to February 1, 2024. PIDA has organized the “Taiwan Pavilion” including Sun Yang Optical, Arima Lasers Corporation, Taiwan Color Optics, Inc., Kinko Optical Co., Ltd. Apogee Optocom Co., Ltd., Baso Precision Optics Ltd., and Quantum Nil Limited Taiwan Branch. Those companies participate in the exhibition to showcase their latest products. PIDA stated that exhibitors will demonstrate various products and services such as optical components, lenses, optical coating, laser technology, AI LiDAR and Nano Imprint Lithography.

        Sun Yang Optical is committed to providing high-end optical lens solutions, including a series of innovative customized optical lens solutions that can meet the diverse needs of customers in high-end projectors, medical imaging, vehicles, outdoor surveillance, and other fields. The company specializes in high-end projector lenses, customized machine vision and industrial lenses, maskless exposure machine lenses, medical instrument lenses, and sports optics lenses. For high-end projector lenses, the company offers lenses with an ultra-short throw of 30 cm and high brightness exceeding 20,000 lumens. These lenses are equipped with advanced laser light sources to provide an excellent large-screen visual experience.

        Furthermore, Sun Yang Optical's customized machine vision and industrial lenses feature a range of optical magnifications, spanning from 1.5x to 18x, enhancing detection efficiency. The maskless exposure machine boasts a remarkable lens resolution, reaching below 5μm, making it particularly well-suited for PCB and packaging processes. Additionally, products like medical instrument lenses and sports optics lenses offer increased flexibility to cater to diverse needs.

        Arima Lasers Corporation has unveiled its "Laser Scanning and Projection System," showcasing its forefront status in laser technology. Arima Lasers maintains its leadership in Laser Beam Scanning technology by seamlessly integrating professional laser alignment technology with MEMS drivers. The system, compact in size, incorporates 2D MEMS, RGB laser beams, and control IC, offering high optical efficiency, low power consumption, and a broad color gamut. This portable system is Bluetooth-enabled, allowing seamless connectivity to smartphones and tablets. Its applications span various scenarios, including garden lights, night projection navigators, advertising projection equipment, and night warning projection lights.

        Taiwan Color Optics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SELX), which is about to be listed on NASDAQ in the United States, will showcase new products integrating AI LiDAR and optical imaging, including LiDAR chip, LiDAR module, ADB Smart Headlight Module, and various optical components, such as filters, diffuser, micro lens array, phosphors and so forth.

        Taiwan Color Optics ' AI LiDAR can be applied to autonomous navigation, agriculture, environmental monitoring and building surveying, which is in line with the future of smart cities. The AI ADB Headlight system can sense road conditions at all times and seamlessly adjust the headlight beam pattern to enhance the driving experience. AI optical image fusion can be used in surveillance, drones and photography, providing excellent accuracy and depth.

        In its 43-year history, Kinko Optical Co., Ltd. has stood out among its peers as a manufacturer of optical components and lenses. Kinko Optical 's design, development, and production operations are all made in Taiwan, and it has glass grinding, plastic injection, molded glass, and precision mold processing production lines. Kinko Optical has passed ISO9001, ISO14001, IATF 16949, SA8000, and Taiwan Intellectual Property Management Standards (TIPS) certification.
Kinko Optical emphasizes that its technological highlights include (1) Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD coating), (2) In-house IK testing, (3) In-house thermal verification, (4) hydrophilic and hydrophobic coatings, which can be used in surveillance, doorbell phone lenses, car lenses, infrared lenses and other applications.

        With optical coating as its core technology, Apogee Optocom Co., Ltd. provides thin film filter (TFF) required for high-density wavelength demultiplexer (DWDM). With the growth of high-speed optical fiber networks, Apogee Optocom seek to provide a variety of different optical component products with advanced optical component production technology and excellent solutions for the global communications industry and optoelectronics industry.

        Baso Precision Optics Ltd., is also a professional optical R&D and manufacturing factory that cooperates with customers in research and development and establishes a service system from development design, sample production to mass production. The company has complete vertical integration capabilities in the field of optical products and an experienced manufacturing service team to provide OEM/ODM services for different industrial needs.

        Quantum Nil Limited Taiwan Branch is paying attention to the trend of compound semiconductors and their process technologies. Driven by the subjects of 5G/6G, AI, HPC, advanced sensing, machine learning and quantum computing, the intelligent nano photonics technology developments on laser device and silicon photonics solutions are introduced.

        In conclusion, Taiwanese exhibitors leverage their cutting-edge manufacturing technology to offer an expansive array of choices for attendees at Photonics West 2024. Their goal is to spearhead the widespread adoption of photonics, optics, and even semiconductor technology. By doing so, these exhibitors aim to not only elevate the global market standards but also provide customers with unparalleled products and services, thereby cementing their position as industry leaders.