Advanced microoptics with 3D design freedom

Additive manufacturing on the microscale enables to go beyond classical microoptical designs. Benefit from the extraordinary capability of Two-Photon Polymerization to shape spherical, aspherical, freeform and even compound 3D microoptics with surfaces and shape accuracy in truly outstanding optical quality.

The next level of additively manufactured microoptics

With our high-resolution 3D printers you can materialize nearly any three-dimensional shape with optical-grade surfaces. This effectively circumvents limitations imposed by mechanical tools and geometrical or process design constraints common to subtractive techniques. Single microlenses, hybrid and freeform optics and compound lens systems can be printed without the need of post-print assembly of individual components.

Using our microfabrication systems Quantum X shape or Photonic Professional GT2, 3D microoptics can be fabricated with ease. Quantum X shape is the fastest and most accurate 3D printer in class while Photonic Professional GT2 is the most mature high-resolution 3D printer in the field. Take advantage of their capabilities in rapid and ultra-precise microfabrication. Print on a wide choice of suitable substrates including glass, silicon wafers, photonic and microfluidic chips. With Quantum X align, on-chip and on-fiber printing is possible.

Nanoscribe IP Photoresins also present options for the fabrication of advanced microoptics. The IP-S photoresin is well suited for the printing of microstructures with high shape accuracy, very smooth contours and optical quality surfaces. For example, microlens arrays printed with IP-S achieve a shape accuracy better than 1 µm and a surface roughness of less than 10 nm Ra. Moreover, the new IP-n162 has a high refractive index of 1.62 and high Abbe number of 25. The optical properties of IP-n162 are comparable to those of optical polymers typically used in injection molding, for example, polycarbonates and polyesters.

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2023/03/23

Two‐Photon Polymerization Lithography for Optics and Photonics: Fundamentals, Materials, Technologies, and Applications

2023/03/15

A bi-axially accelerating Airy beam for miniaturized light-sheet microscopy

2023/03/12

Free-Form Micro-Optics Enabling Ultra-Broadband Low-Loss Off-Chip Couplin

2023/03/10

Temperature Tunable 4D Polymeric Photonic Crystals

2023/03/01

Direct Laser Writing of Microscale 3D Structures: Morphological and Mechanical Properties

2023/02/17

Reconfigurable and Polarization‐Dependent Grating Absorber for Large‐Area Emissivity Control Based on the Plasmonic Phase‐Change Material In3SbTe2

2023/02/13

Coloured vortex beams with incoherent white light illumination

2023/01/30

Complex aspherical singlet and doublet microoptics by grayscale 3D printing

2023/01/28

Smartphone Authentication of Unclonable Anticounterfeiting Labels based on a Microlens Array atop a Microphosphor‐Doped Layer

2023/01/03

Two-photon polymerization for random rough surface preparation

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