Comparative study of glass and plastic refractive microlenses and their fabrication techniques

H. Ottevaere; R. Cox; H. P. Herzig; T. Miyashita; K. Naessens; M. Taghizadeh; R. Völkel; H. J. Woo; H. Thienpont

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Comparative study of glass and plastic refractive microlenses and their fabrication techniques

H. Ottevaere, R. Cox, H. P. Herzig, T. Miyashita, K. Naessens, M. Taghizadeh, R. Völkel, H. J. Woo, H. Thienpont

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In this paper we review the most important fabrication techniques for glass and plastic refractive microlenses and we quantitatively characterize in a systematic way the corresponding state-of-the-art microlenses which we obtained from selected research groups. For all our measurements we rely on three optical instruments: a non-contact optical profiler, a transmission Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a Twyman-Green interferometer. To conclude we survey and discuss the different fabrication techniques by comparing the geometrical and optical characteristics of the microlenses.

Original language	English
Article number	03
Pages (from-to)	27-39
Number of pages	13
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5453
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.546709
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	Micro-Optics, VCSELs, and Photonic Interconnects - Strasbourg, France Duration: 27 Apr 2004 → 29 Apr 2004

Keywords

Glass and plastic microlenses
Microlens survey
Optical characterization
Refractive optics

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