Publications related to Optical manufacturing and testing

Matrix Fourier optics enables a compact full-Stokes polarization camera

Recent developments have enabled the practical realization of optical elements in which the polarization of light may vary spatially. We present an extension of Fourier optics-matrix Fourier optics-for understanding these devices and apply it to the design ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2019

Single crystalline diamond part production method for stand alone single crystalline mechanical and optical component production

Niels Quack, Pascal Gallo, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Adrien Marc Toros

The present invention relates to a free-standing single crystalline diamond part and a single crystalline diamond part production method. The method includes the steps of: - providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; - providing a first adh ...

2019

Stepwise Luneburg Lens for Bloch Surface Waves

Myun Sik Kim, Babak Vosoughi Lahijani

In order to enlarge the capability for in-plane manipulation of the Bloch surface wave (BSW), we investigate 2D gradient index (GRIN) optical components using a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) numerical method. To ease difficulties in fabrication to a ...

2018

On the Limits of Precision Glass Molding for Diffractive Optical Elements

Karin Prater

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) consist of surface reliefs with dimensions in the micrometer range and nanometer precision. Two technologies dominate: Elements replicated in plastic and directly microfabricated elements in fused silica. Plastic DOEs ar ...

EPFL2017

Array imaging system for lithography

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner

We present an integrated array imaging system based on a stack of microlens arrays. The microlens arrays are manufactured by melting resist and reactive ion etching (RIE) technology on 8'' wafers (fused silica) and mounted by wafer-level packaging (WLP)(1) ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

On Micro Optical Elements for Efficient Light Diffusion

Roland Andreas Bitterli

Efficient light management is one of the key issues in modern energy conversion systems, be it to collect optical power or to redistribute light generated by high power light emitters. This thesis touches mainly on the subject of efficient light redistribu ...

EPFL2013

Heat and spin transport in magnetic nanowires

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Simon Granville

Transport measurements are carried out in which temperature oscillation is applied to magnetic nanostructures. Using spin valves, this measurement reveals aspects of the spin transport in non-collinear configurations. In one implementation, an AC voltage i ...

Elsevier2010

Ultra-thick micro-optical components using the PRISM photosensitive flexopolymer

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Virendra Kumar Parashar, Abdeljalil Sayah, Venkataragavalu Sivagnanam

We present the photosensitive flexopolymer PRISM as a new promising material for the realization of thick optical components. The PRISM flexopolymer can be directly polymerized using conventional UV exposure and is simply developed in a water-based solutio ...

2007

Numerical parametric lens for shifting, magnification and complete aberration compensation in digital holographic microscopy

Pierre Marquet, Christian Depeursinge, Jonas Kühn, Tristan Colomb, Etienne Cuche, Florian Charrière, Nicolas Aspert, Frédéric Montfort, Stéphane Bourquin, Mihaela Marian

The concept of numerical parametric lenses (NPL) is introduced to achieve wavefront reconstruction in digital holography. It is shown that operations usually performed by optical components and described in ray geometrical optics, such as image shifting, m ...

2006

Multiple scattering in optical coherence tomography. I. Investigation and modeling

Theo Lasser, Marcel Leutenegger, Stéphane Bourquin, Boris Clément Karamata, Markus Laubscher

We present a new model of optical coherence tomography (OCT) taking into account multiple scattering. A theoretical analysis and experimental investigation reveals that in OCT, despite multiple scattering, the field backscattered from the sample is general ...

2005