ficonTEC

Sustainable AI through Intelligent Manufacturing ficonTEC is a global leader in automated assembly and test systems for integrated photonic devices, enabling the industrialization of silicon photonics at scale. For more than 25 years, ficonTEC has delivered high-precision, high-throughput automation platforms supporting telecom and datacom transceivers, co-packaged optics (CPO), linear pluggable optics (LPO), and next-generation optical interconnect technologies powering AI data centers worldwide. Built on decades of proprietary process expertise in fiber alignment, active optical assembly, wafer- and die-level test, and automated calibration, ficonTEC’s solutions deliver the precision, repeatability, and scalability required for high-volume manufacturing environments. Today, as AI workloads drive exponential growth in optical bandwidth, ficonTEC’s Intelligent Manufacturing platform enables the transition from lab innovation to full industrial deployment — supporting hyperscale data centers, advanced semiconductor packaging, and emerging quantum photonics architectures. ficonTEC is based in Achim near Bremen, with experienced teams in Europe, Asia and the USA. Areas of expertise: - Automated high-precision micro-assembly and testing of photonic devices, opto-electronic components and sub-systems - Multi-DOF precision positioning and alignment - Millisecond active alignment - High-power Laser Diode Assembly and Testing - Automated Optical Inspection