Nanoscribe Training Course:
2PP for Optical Interconnects 

Why Attend?

Learn: how easily photonic coupling can be done with in-situ printed micro-optics.

• A short introduction to the powerful Aligned 2-Photon Lithography (A2PL^®) software and then printing using Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography (2GL^®) for precise aligned printing of optics on fibers or dies (PIC)

Detect: automatically detect fiducials, fiber cores, waveguides, edges, emission angles, etc.

• Down to 100 nm x-y detection accuracy on dies
• Down to 500 nm fiber core detection accuracy
• Up to +-10 µm reduced 1 db alignment tolerance with collimated coupling

Align: print high-precision, freeform 3D optics in optical quality (R_a < 10 nm).

• High-quality optics printed with a position accuracy < 500 nm

Hands-on: live-printing of collimators, focusing lenses, periscopes on fiber for wafer-level testing, and even TIR or prisms to replace grating couplers. 

• Build your own 3D scene of a chip with waveguides, fiducials, and micro-optics with the nanoPrintX software
• Print optical elements directly on fibers, fiber arrays or chips 

Low-loss: interconnects offering XY alignment tolerances of many µm for pick & place while still reaching losses < 1dB. 

• Learn how to relax assembly tolerances through the use of Free Space Microoptical Coupling (FSMOC) while maintaining low loss connections 

Use cases: quantum technology, Lidar, PIC, sensors, telecom, datacom, and more.