Merging Technologies for Optics

Abstract

The market for optical and optoelectronical components is a rapidly growing global market. The development of new manufacturing technologies for the fabrication of optics enables the fabrication of optical components with nanometer roughness and submicron form accuracy for mass markets like digital cameras, video projectors and automotive applications, even for low cost applications with short product life cycles. Therefore, the process chain for fabricating optical high quality mass products has to be deterministic flexible as well as in order to suppress cost intensive and time consuming iterations within the manufacturing chain. This paper introduces several approaches to take up this challenge.