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Manufacturing strategies for scalable high-precision 3D printing of structures from the micro to the macro range

  • Benedikt Stender EMAIL logo , Fabian Hilbert , Yannick Dupuis , Alexander Krupp , Willi Mantei and Ruth Houbertz
Published/Copyright: May 30, 2019
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Advanced Optical Technologies
From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 8 Issue 3-4

Abstract

Industrial high-precision 3D Printing (HP3DP) via two-photon absorption (TPA) provides freedom in design for the fabrication of novel products that are not feasible with conventional techniques. Up to now, 2PP-fabrication has only been used for structures on the micrometer scale due to limited traveling ranges of the translation stages and the field-of-view (FoV) of microscope objectives (diameters below 0.5 mm). For industrial applications, not only high throughput but also scalability in size is essential. For this purpose, this contribution gives insights into different manufacturing strategies composed of varying exposure modes, fabrication modes, and structuring modes, which enable the generation of large-scale optical elements without relying on stitching. With strategies like stage-only mode or synchronized movement of galvoscanners and translation stages, optical elements with several millimeters in diameter and freeform shape can be fabricated with optical surface quality.

Keywords: freeform; high-precision 3D printing; manufacturing strategy; scalable lenses

Funding source: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie

Award Identifier / Grant number: TOU-1512-004

Funding statement: Part of the work was funded by Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie, Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006360, Grant Number: TOU-1512-004.

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Received: 2019-02-15
Accepted: 2019-04-23
Published Online: 2019-05-30
Published in Print: 2019-06-26

©2019 THOSS Media & De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/aot-2019-0022
Keywords for this article
freeform; high-precision 3D printing; manufacturing strategy; scalable lenses

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