Manufacturing and measurement of freeform optics

Materials and techniques for electrochemical biosensor design and construction

The present invention provides microfluidic devices and systems (100) that utilize optical detection systems, and where one or more light altering optical elements (106) are integrated into the body structure (102) of the microfluidic device. The resulting devices perform at least a portion of the optical manipulations used in the optical detection method employed.

Microfluidic devices and systems incorporating integrated optical elements

We report the fabrication of micro lens using an alternative annular scanning mode with continuous variable layer thickness by two-photon polymerization after multi-parameter optimization. Laser scanning mode and scanning pace parameter are optimized to achieve good appearance. As examples of the results, a 2 × 2 micro spherical lens array with diameter of 15 μm and a micro Fresnel lens with diameter of 17 μm are fabricated. Their optical performances are also tested. Compared to the conventional femtosecond two-photon fabrication, this work provides an alternative, effective and cheap processing method for the fabrication of micro optic device that requires arbitrary shape with high surface quality and small scale.

Micro lens fabrication by means of femtosecond two photon photopolymerization.

A new optical concept for compact digital image acquisition devices with large field of view is developed and proofed experimentally. Archetypes for the imaging system are compound eyes of small insects and the Gabor-Superlens. A paraxial 3x3 matrix formalism is used to describe the telescope arrangement of three microlens arrays with different pitch to find first order parameters of the imaging system. A 2mm thin imaging system with 21x3 channels, 70 masculinex10 masculine field of view and 4.5mm x 0.5mm image size is optimized and analyzed using sequential and non-sequential raytracing and fabricated by microoptics technology. Anamorphic lenses, where the parameters are a function of the considered optical channel, are used to achieve a homogeneous optical performance over the whole field of view. Captured images are presented and compared to simulation results.

Microoptical telescope compound eye

We report on our activities in design, fabrication, characterization and system integration of refractive microlens arrays for sensors and microsystems. Examples for chemical analysis systems (, blood gas sensor), neural networks and multiple pupil imaging systems for photolithography (microlens and smart mask lithography) are presented.

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M. Eisner

Papers

Design, fabrication and testing of microlens arrays for sensors and microsystems