High-throughput 3D printing of customized imaging lens

Xiangfan Chen; Wenzhong Liu; Biqin Dong; Henry Oliver T. Ware; Hao F. Zhang; Cheng Sun

doi:10.1117/12.2285947

High-throughput 3D printing of customized imaging lens

Xiangfan Chen, Wenzhong Liu, Biqin Dong, Henry Oliver T. Ware, Hao F. Zhang, Cheng Sun

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Abstract

Recently, 3D printing has gone beyond being an industrial prototyping process and has gradually evolved as the tool to manufacture production-quality parts that are otherwise challenging by using traditional methods. Especially, translating 3D printing technique into the optical realm would dramatically improve the time-and cost-efficiency of customized optical elements, while conventional methods such as multiaxial lathes polishing, magnetorheological finishing, molding techniques are relatively expensive and time consuming. However, 3D printing also suffers from the inherent drawback: the reduced surface quality associated with the stair-stepping effect as a direct result of the layered deposition of the material. In this paper, we have demonstrated a time-and cost-effective single photon micro-stereolithography based 3D printing method to eliminate the layer stair-stepping effect. This method supports not only sub-voxel accuracy (∼ 2 μm) of the surface in the range of 2 mm diameter, but also features deep sub-wavelength roughness (< 10 nm) of the surfaces and extremely good reproducibility. Furthermore, we designed and rapidly prototyped the aspherical lenses which not only feature low distortion, but also show remarkable optical quality in a broadband wavelength range from 400 nm to 800 nm.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Laser 3D Manufacturing V
Editors	Henry Helvajian, Alberto Pique, Bo Gu
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510615311
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285947
State	Published - 2018
Event	5th Meeting of Laser 3D Manufacturing - San Francisco, United States Duration: Jan 29 2018 → Feb 1 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	10523
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Other	5th Meeting of Laser 3D Manufacturing
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	1/29/18 → 2/1/18

Funding

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant number EEC-1530734 and DBI-1353952. This work made use of the EPIC, Keck-II, and/or SPID facility(ies) of Northwestern University’s NUANCE Center, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource (NSF ECCS-1542205); the MRSEC program (NSF DMR-1121262) at the Materials Research Center; the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN); the Keck Foundation; and the State of Illinois, through the IIN.

Keywords

3D printing
customized imaging lens
projection micro-stereolithography
sub-10 nm roughness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Chen, X, Liu, W, Dong, B, Ware, HOT, Zhang, HF & Sun, C 2018, High-throughput 3D printing of customized imaging lens. in H Helvajian, A Pique & B Gu (eds), Laser 3D Manufacturing V., 105230G, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10523, SPIE, 5th Meeting of Laser 3D Manufacturing, San Francisco, United States, 1/29/18. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285947

High-throughput 3D printing of customized imaging lens. / Chen, Xiangfan; Liu, Wenzhong; Dong, Biqin et al.
Laser 3D Manufacturing V. ed. / Henry Helvajian; Alberto Pique; Bo Gu. SPIE, 2018. 105230G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10523).

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