3D Printing Creates New Optical Possibilities
Emerging 3D printing technology is transforming once-impossible designs of optical components into optimized elements that can improve medical instruments, research tools, communications systems, and consumer devices. In 3D printing, an additive process prints an entire optical component one tiny particle at a time, enabling designs that combine multiple functions in a single lens or pre-align a system by creating optics, mounts, and baffles together. The new optical designs can reduce a...
Photonics Spectra, October 2022