vario-optics ag moves forward -

step by step

Proactively addressing the market is an important activity within our small team, besides filling customer orders and further developing our technologies. We are pursuing a “market push” strategy or “technology marketing” using dif-ferent channels to promote our technology: customer visits, presentations at conferences and trade fairs, website presentation and last but not least this newsletter.

Past June, we ran for the first time our own booth at the SMT fair in Nuremberg. Besides that, we also took the opportunity to present our technology at a parallel conference and at different forums, which were held alongside the SMT fair. It is clear that this required quite extensive preparation, considering that it was our first independent appearance at a trade show. However, our efforts paid off! During these three days we were able to establish further customer contacts with a high potential to result in new projects. Besides the SMT fair we performed a large number of customer visits. All these activities have generated an increasing interest at our customers engineering departments. As a positive consequence we are already well booked with customer projects.

On the technology side we have also made further progress. Besides various other innovations we are particularly proud to have developed a patented process to generate mechanical structures which are highly accurately aligned with invisible waveguides. Based on this, passive and therefore cost effective assembly of electro-optical com-ponents (e.g. lasers, LEDs and photodiodes) can be provided. The following picture shows the assembly of a glass-fiber, without using time consuming optimization strategies. 

With all these activities it is not surprising that our team has reached its capacity limit. Therefore, the decision was made to extend our team by an additional engineer. We are very excited to announce that Tobias Lamprecht has joined vario-optics ag by the beginning of July! He studied microsystems - technology at the University of Applied Science in Buchs (Switzerland). During the following six years he worked in the field of planar polymer waveguide based interconnects at IBM Research GmbH in Zurich. Tobias Lamprecht ideally supplements our team with his broad knowledge in EOCB technology. He has taken up his work on internal technology development projects as well as on customer projects with great motivation.

We wish Tobias Lamprecht all the best and a lot of success in his new challenge!