Optica Design and Fabrication Congress 2023 Optical design and fabrication play an ever-increasing role in our modern society as more applications for optics are developed, especially in the areas of imaging, sensing and illumination systems. Additive Manufacture of Optical Components Hot topics for the congress include the fabrication of optics by lasers, additive manufacturing methodologies [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Design for Manufacture of High-resolution 3D Printed Rotation Optics Freeform Optics explores the evolving impact of freeform optical surfaces on optical systems for both imaging and illumination. The scope features work on the optical design of imaging systems with freeform surfaces, evolving methods for surface representation for illumination system optimization and a perspective on the [...]
