Opdo and Luximprint Partnership: A Digital Workflow for Custom Optics Design and Fabrication The first AI optics platform, brought to life by opdo.at, is now joined by the pioneer of 3D printed optics, Luximprint — delivering a true digital end-to-end workflow where design and fabrication happen in days, not months. The collaboration between opdo and [...]
LED professional Online on LUX Crystalline Series: New Crystal Clear Resins with high UV-stability and Superior Impact Resistance Based on their know-how in the areas of technology, consultancy and research as well as 25 years of experience in the lighting industry, the LED professional publications provide the lighting industry with comprehensive information about Solid State [...]
Investigation of Diffractive Structure Designs through Printoptical® Technology Abstract A next research has been recently published on realizing diffractive optics structures for various application areas such as in reality displays, integrated circuits and illumination. The current advancement in additive manufacturing allows rapid prototyping of diffractive structures at low cost within short time and little material [...]
3D Printing Speeds Up Optics Manufacturing Whereas the traditional manufacture of optical components was carried out mainly through conventional milling technologies, today's novel 3D printing methods have significantly increased the speed and flexibility of the overall making process. By adding successive layers of a UV or thermally-cured resin until a given shape is complete, developers [...]
3D Printing Trends in the Plastics Industry 3D printing is set to create a difference in our world for multiple reasons. Els van de Ven, Event Manager at Mikrocentrum, speaks out at the starting eve of the Kunststoffenbeurs about sustainability and circularity. Those, among other themes, will be among the highlights during the plastics event [...]
Enhancement of High-Resolution 3D Inkjet-Printing of Optical Freeform Surfaces Using Digital Twins Inkjet is a well-established technology that has been applied in various applications ranging from graphical printing to functional material printing in two or threedimensional objects. The technology has many advantages over traditional manufacturing techniques such as being a simple process and allowing [...]
High-Resolution 3D Printed Rotation Optics In this paper, written by leading researchers of KNMF/KIT, design and manufacture of a 3D printed varifocal freeform optics is presented. The optical refraction power can be tuned continuously by mutual rotation of two helically shaped lens bodies of azimuthally varying curvatures. Since no additional space for axial or [...]
New Disruptive Fabrication Technologies for a Novel Design Approach Some manufacturing technologies and tools that were only used in pre-production or prototyping for a long time have become state-of-the-art for mass production today. 3D printing is one such technology. LED professional Review, the global information hub for Lighting Technologies, dedicated a 6-page article to emerging [...]
WestCoast Lighting Insider on (Optical) 3D Printing for the Lighting Industry The 'WestCoast Lighting Insider' is created in partnership with LightShow West and LED Specifier Summit. Each month WCLI delivers information dedicated to the West Coast lighting industry. In a recent contribution, respected lighting industry journalist Lois Hutchinson provides exclusive, inspiring and insightful coverage of [...]
Light Zoom Lumière: 3D printing and Lighting - An Inventarisation of its Use Who are the key players in the sector? What are the current uses of additive manufacturing? Light Zoom Lumière dedicated a comprehensive online article to this topic, covering the most recent activities, suppliers and applications in the lighting industry in order to [...]
