Surround the Workpiece
Surround the Workpiece® is an MKS offering that includes product design and development, system level integration, research and development, system, subsystem and component selection, and maintenance, repair and calibration services in the field of laser-based guidance and control for manufacturing processes.
World Class Products
Lasers
For over 60 years, Spectra-Physics has delivered breakthrough technologies that transform the way businesses operate and people live. From the manufacturing floor to the operating room to the research laboratory, the brand has blazed a trail of discovery and success in lasers that continues to advance every day.
Our Spectra-Physics brand is singularly focused on helping its customers use precision laser technologies to advance leading-edge science and propel industries forward. This is done so by offering groundbreaking technologies, deep applications expertise, disruptive cost-performance, a commitment to world-class customer experience, and the highest standards for operational excellence and continuous global improvement.
Light Analysis
MKS offers industry leading tools for measuring the power or energy of an optical beam, profiling a laser beam, locating the position of a beam, analyzing the spectrum, or characterizing a laser pulse. Our products enhance our customers' capabilities and productivity in the Semiconductor, Industrial, Life and Health Sciences, Research and Defense markets.
Optics & Optical Components
We offer the highest quality optics and optical components covering UV, VIS, NIR and IR wavelengths. Whether you are setting up a laser experiment or integrating a commercial photonics product, we have competitively priced high performance optics to suit your needs. You can find the optic you need fast for specific applications by using our Optics Application Portals. And, be sure to check out our cost savings packs when you need to stock up on optics or opto-mechanical components!
Optical Tables & Isolation Systems
We offer numerous vibration control and custom options like all stainless steel Integrity VCS systems, or custom access and mounting holes in the Integrity VCS frame. MKS has a dedicated custom design team for your custom needs. This team has been working with various types of materials, shapes, structures, hole patterns, and more for over 40 years, and has served customers across the world in research, aerospace, semiconductor and medical related fields. Contact MKS today for your custom needs.
Motion Control
With over 55 years of precision mechanical design, fabrication and motion control experience and expertise, we have developed an extensive catalog of manual positioning and motion control standard and custom products for applications ranging from industrial to nanopositioning.
Market Solutions
MKS offerings include product design and development, system level integration, research and development, system, subsystem and component selection, and maintenance, repair and calibration services in the field of laser-based guidance and control for manufacturing processes.
Industrial Manufacturing
Enabling a Wide Range of Precision Applications in Some of the World's Largest Industries
Industrial Manufacturing encompasses a wide range of diverse technologies supporting applications such as glass coating, laser marking, measurement, machining and scribing.
Industrial Manufacturing Applications
- Powder Bed Fusion
- Vat Polymerization
- System-in-Package (SiP) Manufacturing
- Electric Vehicles
- Laser Micromachining
- Laser Microprocessing
Advanced Electronics Manufacturing
Enabling the Next Generation of Advanced Electronics
An important and growing segment of Advanced Markets is Advanced Electronics Manufacturing. Examples of Advanced Electronics Manufacturing applications include PCB Manufacturing, Electronic Component Manufacturing, Electronic Thin Film, OLED Displays, Electronics and Advanced Packaging, and High Efficiency Solar Cells. The key trends across these applications are miniaturization and complexity, and MKS is well-positioned to enable the next generation of advanced electronics. Our portfolio in lasers, photonics, optics, and precision motion enable us to uniquely address our customers’ most complex problems.
Applications
- PCB Manufacturing
- Flat Panel Display Manufacturing
- LED Manufacturing
- OLED Manufacturing
- Solar Panel Manufacturing
- Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturing
Resources
Application Notes, Tutorials, Videos & More
MKS provides a range of documentation to assist in product selection, set-up, installation, and operation. Application Notes are available for a wide variety of applications including laser micromachining, LiDAR, PCB manufacturing, semiconductor, and others. Technical Notes provide greater depth of product use and benefits within an application.
Customer Support Services
Application Labs & Support
Our application labs are staffed with a team of leading experts in laser material processing and provide expertise and support in our served markets. We support our customers by performing sample test experiments, demonstrating equipment capabilities, and providing ongoing application-specific support. Our team, both independently and collaboratively with universities and institutes, performs important research and development for advancing the state-of-the-art in laser applications. The team also provides critical guidance to our internal product development groups so that we may continue to address future application challenges.
Deep Applications Expertise
Through our application labs and deep experience in targeted laser applications, Spectra-Physics develops application-specific approaches and technologies to accelerate customers’ success in 24/7 environments, from microelectronics, display, PCB, and industrial manufacturing to bio-medical and advanced scientific markets. With this expertise, Spectra-Physics develops new products that are ideal for targeted applications and that deliver breakthrough capability and unprecedented cost-performance to propel novel application results and success for our customers.
Integrated Solutions Business (ISB) & Engineering Development
The Integrated Solutions Business adds value to OEM customers’ programs by applying a broad portfolio of components, technologies, design capability and manufacturing infrastructure to provide unique, compelling component, assembly, and subsystem solutions. Precision subassemblies and subsystems incorporate Newport’s knowledge and expertise in optics, lasers, opto-mechanics, motion control, and electro-optics to meet the most demanding customer needs for performance, reliability, value, and schedule.
Capabilities
Capabilities include precision optics fabrication and coating for:
- Standard glasses, low CTE glass, and metals
- Sphere, asphere, cylindrical, freeform geometries
- Precision features examples:
- Truncation
- Thru holes
- Blind holes with mounting/locating features
- Light-weighting
- Up to λ/100 correction on surface figure error
- Mid-spatial smoothing
- Super Polishing
- Thin film coatings
Calibration
We offer calibration on our Spectra-Physics lasers and power meters, as well as many other instruments such as spectrometers and wave meters. We offer these calibration services at our Service Centers around the world.
Repair
The MKS Service Centers are staffed by engineers who are experts in diagnosing and repairing our customers’ instruments and accessories. We offer comprehensive repair and service programs that maximize the value of our customers’ installed base of critical subcomponents to ensure: extended life of their equipment, reduced downtime, drive more predictability, increase uptime and tool availability, and improve productivity.
Committed to our customers’ success, MKS provides highly-skilled engineers and technicians who understand our customers’ process and requirements. We use MKS original parts for all repairs. Our skilled technicians use current, proven methods and techniques, and all repairs are qualified on an MKS-designed test stand.