API: high opto-electronic photodetector components and systems

Opto-electronic photodetector components and systems for telecommunications, medical diagnostics, military, etc

About Advanced Photonix
Advanced Photonix, Inc. (NYSE Amex: API) is a leading supplier of opto-electronic solutions and Terahertz sensors and instrumentation to a global OEM customer base. heir solutions are based on our patented high speed optical receivers in III-V materials in APD and PIN configurations and silicon Large Area Avalanche Photodiode (LAAPD), PIN photodiode and FILTRODE® detectors. The Terahertz sensor product line is targeted to the Non-Destructive Testing (including Baggage/Cargo Scanning) and Quality Control markets. Using our patented fiber coupled technology and high speed Terahertz generation and detection sensors we are transferring Terahertz from the application development laboratory to the factory floor.
API supports the customer from the initial concept by the designing of the semiconductor, hybridization of support electronics, packaging and signal conditioning or processing from prototype through full-scale production and validation/test. Our served markets are: Telecom, Homeland Security, Military, Medical, and Industrial/NDT.
The Company has two manufacturing facilities; our corporate headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and one in Camarillo, CA.

Test and Quality Assurance
Extensive in-house testing ensures reliability
API maintains an in-house capability to design and manufacture custom test and data acquisition systems which are integrated with a wide range of environmental, electrical, spectral and reliability tests.
As an ongoing supplier to the high reliability markets of military and aerospace, API performs in-process inspection throughout the wafer fabrication and product assembly processes. Assemblies are tested both pre-cap and at final inspection. This series of testing is designed to meet the most rigorous customer requirements.