2017 SPIE Optifab Conference

Technical papers and posters must focus on Optical Manufacturing. In particular, we are seeking papers in the following topics: 

• materials and material sciences - optical glasses, polymers, crystals, infrared materials, ultraviolet materials, optical mold insert materials for glass or polymer molding, and optical adhesives 

• classical and automated fabrication - highlighting computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and software for the optical industry 

• grinding, polishing, and new methods of surface finishing - loose and bound abrasive, diamond turning, ion figuring, water-jet cutting and removal processes, sub-aperture lap polishing and smoothing 

• process science - materials, abrasives, coolants, tooling, for grinding and polishing that are selected for cost reduction and flow optimization 

• injection molding, glass molding, lithographic processing and chemical etching 

• design for manufacturing - design considerations for manufacturability including, but not limited to, material choice, error budgets, tolerances, mounting, assembly, and testing 

• interactivity and data interfaces between optical design programs, mechanical design programs, fabrication equipment and metrology instrumentation 

• new developments in the optical design, manufacturing, and metrology of freeform surfaces including, but not limited to, mathematical representations of freeform surfaces, advanced methods for fabricating freeform surfaces, and practical methods for fabricating and measuring freeform surfaces using integrated fiducials 

• new developments in fabrication, control of mid-spatial-frequency errors in optics, polymer and crystal optics, sapphire processing, and single point diamond machining 

• new developments in the design, manufacturing, and metrology of micro-optics, MOEMS, and diffractive optics 

• new developments in coatings technology - advanced approaches for all types of optical coatings on glass, metal, plastics and crystalline materials 

• new developments in cleaning and inspection techniques, MIL spec marking, packaging 

• new developments in metrology, including all forms of interferometry, profilometry, MTF measurement, ellipsometry, scatterometry, visual inspection equipment, and surface/subsurface metrology 

• new developments in opto-mechanical design, fabrication, and assembly, including in-line alignment/metrology