Introduction
Polymer optics can be found in many aspects of our daily lives. Modern applications are vast and include camera phones, near-to-eye displays, microprojection, panoramic capture systems, biometrics, endoscopy, automotive, and many others. Polymer optics have become increasingly prevalent due to continuously improving manufacturing tolerances, their ability to incorporate mechanical features directly into the optical parts, their ability to scale to high volumes, their low cost relative to that of other technologies and their low mass relative to glass.
Molded glass optics has advanced greatly in the last decade, both to improve quality and to adopt the low-cost manufacturability that had previously been conceded to injection molded polymer optics.
This conference will be dedicated to both polymer optics and molded glass optics, including plastic/glass hybrid optics, with special emphasis on recent developments in the field.
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Submission Topics
We welcome papers describing advances in any aspect of polymer optics, particularly within the following areas:
- developments that exemplify the strengths of polymer optics, such as extreme
- asphericity, low cost, low weight, high volume production, integration of functional
- mechanical features, tolerance to impact and strain, etc.
- developments that challenge the traditional roadblocks for polymer optics, such as thermal instability, structural instability, birefringence, haze, difficulty in broad spectrum color correction, etc.
- advances in ultra-precision diamond turning, molding, mold-making and tooling, coating, or assembly additive manufacturing of polymer optics advances in polymer optics materials advances in metrology (surface, part, or system) advances/applications of unique surface geometries (i.e., aspheres, toroids, freeform optics, microstructures, etc.)
- advanced tolerancing for unique surface geometries and high volumes novel applications of polymers, including applications outside the visible waveband (SWIR/NIR) business/market trends for polymer optics.
- We also welcome papers describing advances in any aspect of molded glass optics, particularly including: developments that highlight the strengths of glass optics, such as thermal tolerance, CTE, birefringence, high compressive strength, range of optical properties, etc.
- advances in new molding materials and processes novel applications of molded glass optics business/market trends for molded optics and feedstocks.
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Important Date
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Conference Date
Aug 28
2016
toSep 01
2016
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Mar 15 2016
Draft paper submission deadline
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Sep 01 2016
Registration deadline
Contact Information
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