Photonics Hub Online Symposium Freeform Optics - Part II

Freeform surfaces are gaining increasing importance in modern optical systems, with a high degree of design freedom with unique possibilities to combine different optical functions. The implementation of freeform optical surfaces enhances the performance in an optical system and offers miniaturized and more compact optics. Dependent on the application, one or more surfaces can be shaped as freeform surfaces which result in strong challenges over the entire value chain. Designs, materials, processes, and characterization methods need to be well aligned. While fabrication methods are nowadays capable of creating complex freeform elements once the processes are validated, the metrology of freeform surfaces in still in its infancy. The workshop brings together international design, material, and technology experts and provides an overview about the newest developments in the field to discuss them in a networking atmosphere.

This event is organized in cooperation with Multiphoton Optics.

Schedule  Part II (Part I on Oct. 6th)

15:00 Manufacturing of Freeform Optics on Wafer Level, Dr. Reinhard Völkel, Süss MicroOptics

15:20 Additive Manufacturing of Micro-Optics: Micro-Meso-Macro, Dr. Benedikt Stender, Multiphoton Optics

15:50 Measurement of Freeform Optics from 1 mm – 600 mm diameter by use of a scanning point interferometer. Dr. Marc Wendel, AMETEK

16:10 break - discussion

16:30 Simulation and Analysis of high-NA Freeform surfaces, Dr. Frank Wyrowski, LightTrans International

16: 50 Freeform Manufacturing for Sensorics, Dr. Johannes Koeth, nanoplus GmbH

17:10  Freeform Micor Optics: Current Status and future challenges, Dr. Oskar Fernendez, CSEM

17:30 Discussion