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.
Engineering and testing of Hi Rel electronic components
High reliability electronic components - Space electronic components. What Do We Offer to Our Customers?, comprehensive experience in the high reliability electronic components...
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...
DRONES, RPAS and UAS
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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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Test strategy for New Technologies and Nowadays Spacecraft Needs
The Single event effects is becoming more and more important due to the devices technology evolution...
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...
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...
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...
SILICON CAPACITORS SPACE Pre-Evaluation
New space missions include more extreme requirements of storage and operational temperatures and vac...
Extreme Temperature Characterization of Passive Components
This article describes the setup developments and some of the results obtained for the temperature c...
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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...
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...
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...
Opto-mechanical design and assembly
The efficient generation of photon pairs requires very strict characteristics on the illuminating be...
