Abstract
Manipulating small optics less than 1 mm under a microscopic view is increasingly required due to the increase of assembling 3 dimensional bulk type of optics. Handling such small optics has a particular difficulty both in avoiding electrostatic force, viscous force, and surface tension in handling and in making a design of ridged structure in limited workspace. For an assembling process of micro lens array (MLA) to a ferule with multi optical fibers, we use the manipulation mechanism driven by wires and the picture processing. First, the master patterns are created for pattern matching and driving functions are derived from the position of MLA and the ferrule. Second, alignment motions are carried out by driving the manipulator with 5-DOF according to the function. This paper describes the driving strategy and the function for positioning the MLA and the ferrule by the manipulator, and shows the result of operation actually.
