Two-photon polymerization as a structuring technology in production: future or fiction?

Emely Marie Harnisch; Robert Schmitt

doi:10.1117/12.2249743

28 April 2017 Two-photon polymerization as a structuring technology in production: future or fiction?

Emely Marie Harnisch, Robert Schmitt

Proceedings Volume 10115, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics X; 101150Q (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249743
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Two-photon polymerization (TPP) has become an established generative fabrication technique for individual, up to three-dimensional micro- and nanostructures. Due to its high resolution beyond the diffraction limit, its writing speed is limited and in most cases, very special structures are fabricated in small quantities. With regard to the trends of the optical market towards higher efficiencies, miniaturization and higher functionalities, there is a high demand for so called intelligent light management systems, including also individual optical elements. Here, TPP could offer a fabrication technique, enabling higher complexities of structures than conventional cutting and lithographic technologies do. But how can TPP opened up for production? In the following, some approaches to establish TPP as a mastering technique for molding are presented against this background.

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Emely Marie Harnisch and Robert Schmitt "Two-photon polymerization as a structuring technology in production: future or fiction?", Proc. SPIE 10115, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics X, 101150Q (28 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249743

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