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.
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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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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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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Compact Balanced-to-Balanced Diplexer
A compact balanced-to-balanced diplexer composed of two balanced bandpass filters is proposed in thi...
Quantum Transceiver for secure Space Communications
Quantum communications offers many advantages for secure data transmission, e.g. confidentiality, in...
Development of Liquid Crystal Based Adaptive Optical elements for Space Applications
Objectives of the project: Identify, review and evaluate the current status of programmable optoele...
Evaluation of the Radiation Hardness of GaSbbased Laser Diodes for Space Applications
ASER diodes are increasingly used for space applications, either to pump solid state lasers, in phot...
SOLAR CELLS
The new century brought to the space a new type of solar cells with higher efficiencies and better r...
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...
Optoelectronic Components for Integration into Space
Spacecraft structural health-monitoring applications are pushed forward by increased constraints in...
Fast optical source for quantum key distribution based on semiconductor optical amplifiers
A novel integrated optical source capable of emitting faint pulses with different polarization state...
A method of space radiation environment reliability prediction
Space radiation environment is an important failure causing factor in space vehicles. Traditional r...
High Brightness Semiconductor Lasers as Transmitters for Space Lidar Systems
High brightness semiconductor lasers are potential transmitters for future space lidar systems. In t...
