Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (ASE: API) is a leading supplier of optoelectronic photodetector components, subsystems and systems for telecommunications networks, medical diagnostics, military sensors, industrial quality control and homeland security screening. Rely on API for the highest-performing optoelectronic products. We are a vertically integrated supplier, delivering high-reliability products addressing the requirements of OEM system designers through our three product platforms:
High-Speed Optical Receivers
API has built a strong position in telecommunications components through its wholly owned subsidiary, Picometrix, LLC. Since 1992, the company has focused on developing and manufacturing the fastest, most sensitive, most temperature-stable, and broadest-wavelength high-speed photodiodes available. Customers can select from a standard line of components or a customized product to meet their unique requirements. More »
Custom Optoelectronic Solutions
API's comprehensive design abilities offer a broad array of options in detector geometry and performance, package type, and integration of electronics, optics and filters. 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. More »
Terahertz Systems
API's wholly owned subsidiary, Picometrix, LLC, leads the industry in the development and commercialization of terahertz sensors and systems. Terahertz can be used to image through materials yielding high spatial resolution and has the ability to resolve both time and amplitude information. More »
Latest News and Events
Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces The T-Ray™ 4000, Compact, High-Power Terahertz System
Picometrix, LLC, an API company, introduced its fourth generation terahertz system on March 19 at the Optical Terahertz Science and Technology (OTST) meeting in Orlando, Florida. The T-Ray 4000 is a revolution in time-domain terahertz instrumentation and is targeted at the application research and off-line quality control markets. More »