ALTER is an expert and trusted supplier in the field of engineering and testing of EEE components and equipment for space and other technology markets.
ALTER offers a wide range of services, from parts procurement to equipment testing, including radiation, packaging design and assembly, screening, destructive physical analysis, qualification, environmental testing, failure analysis, obsolescence management, counterfeit assessment and much more.
Packaging & Assembly
Alter Technology (formerly Optocap) is a technology-oriented company active in the field of optoelectronics, microelectronics and MEMS packaging design and assembly services Optoc...
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Certification & Equipment Testing
Product quality assurance of complex systems presents particular difficulties that require a solid expertise to achieve the objective without jeopardizing the time to market and op...
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Radiation Testing Services Electronics Parts
Radiation degrades EEE components and generates device perturbations that could lead to its malfunction or destruction. These effects are highly dependent on the radiation type: ga...
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Balanced-to-Balanced Microstrip Diplexer Based on Magnetically Coupled Resonators
The use of differential (or balanced) digital and analog circuits for information processing has inc...
Optical Switches
The objective of this activity is to examine the suitability of solid state fiber optic switches to...
Reliability Assessment of Medium / Large Area PIN SI Photodiodes for Optical Wireless links for Intra – Spacecraft Communications
The Reliability Assessment of Area PIN SI Photodiodes was a exhibition theme in the First Internatio...
Assessment of Commercial Optical Amplifiers for Potential use in Space Applications
This paper describes the activities and results of an ESA-funded project concerned with the assessme...
Validation ASIC Space Applications
Traditionally ASICs (and FPGAs) used in space were manufactured using Rad-Hard technologies and desi...
Evaluation and Qualification of Fibre Pigtailed Lasers for ESA’s SMOS Mission
A dedicated evaluation and qualification campaign has been performed on several optical COTS compone...
SEE testing on GaAs test vehicles. Methodology, Results and Derating. Lessons Learned
Radiation sensitivity of GaAs components is not really well known, compare to other technologies. Tr...
Optoelectronic Components for Integration into Space
Spacecraft structural health-monitoring applications are pushed forward by increased constraints in...
Opto-mechanical design and assembly
The efficient generation of photon pairs requires very strict characteristics on the illuminating be...
Low Temperature Radiation Test of High Voltage Optocouplers for Space Applications
In space applications, optocouplers may need to work at very low temperatures. Under this low temper...
