Optics

A world without micro- and nanostructured optical components can hardly be imagined anymore. We deliver key components for 3D sensors, optical measurement technology and industrial automation to series customers worldwide.

Micro- and nanooptics make our customers’ optical systems more efficient, powerful and precise. Whether structured light, antireflection or solid angle filters, the applications for microoptical systems are very broad.

Key components for 3D sensors, optical measurement technology and industrial automation | Optics

Optics

Optical applications

Wafer Level Optics

Microlens Arrays (MLA) in large quantities

>Wafer Level Optics
SOLID ANGLE SELECTIVE ELEMENTS

Angle partitioning for defined solid angles using ultra-thin film

>SOLID ANGLE SELECTIVE ELEMENTS
AR MOTH EYE STRUCTURES

Broadband antireflection over a wide angle with only one layer

>AR MOTH EYE STRUCTURES
OPTICAL GRIDS

Linear and cross grids from sub-micron to 1 m² surfaces

>OPTICAL GRIDS
PRECISION OPTICAL PARTS

Burr-free, high-precision components, such as slit and perforated sheets as an alternative to metal etching

>PRECISION OPTICAL PARTS
Katrin Christiani

Product Manager Optics

Wafer Level Optics

Microlens arrays in large quantities

Replication by the UV imprint process process at wafer level allows cost-efficient production of large quantities. Above all, microlens arrays (MLA) with spherical or aspherical lens geometries are used for 3D sensors to provide automated face or component recognition according to the structured light principle.

 

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up to

45.000

lenses/mm²
up to

100%

fill factor
less than

10nm

ra roughness

ANGLE-SELECTIVE ELEMENTS

Angle partitioning for defined solid angles

The combination of lens and pinhole has long been proven in optics. temicon has transferred this principle into micro-optics and can manufacture films less than 400 µm thick that create an angle partition.

Every microlens is assigned to a pinhole that is in the lens’s focal point. The high finish quality and extremely low tolerances in aligning pinholes allow efficient filtering of defined solid angles. This film is used in industrial measurement technology, among other applications.

 

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less than

0,4mm

stack thickness
up to

90%

transmission
less than

50µm

smallest lens diameter

MOTH EYE STRUCTURES

Broadband antireflection over a wide angle with only one layer

Many optical applications require low reflection together with higher transmission.

Copied from nature, temicons own antireflection structure is based on the moth eye principle and offers many advantages over thin-film antireflection coatings. It works across the entire visible spectrum. It has a high acceptance angle. Only one layer application is needed. It increases the transmission of glass in air from slightly above 92% to approx.99.5%. Applications include display technology and sensors.

 

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less than

0,2%

reflection
approx.

0,5%

reflection at AOI 45°
only

1

layer application required

OPTICAL GRIDS

Linear and cross grids from sub-micron to 1m² surfaces

From several tens of microns to 200 nm, temicon offers a wide variety of optical grids.

Whether linear grids, cross grids or hexagonal grids, the orientation and arrangement is variable. Interference lithographic manufacturing of the grids allows grids up to about 1 m² to be exposed in one shot. With R2R processes, this grid's extremely large surfaces can be replicated. They are used in LED/OLED displays, in optical data transfer, optical measurement technology and in the packaging industry.

 

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up to

1

exposure surface
minimum

200nm

pitch
up to

20m/min

R2R speed

PRECISION OPTICAL PARTS

Burr-free, high-precision components, such as slit and perforated sheets

Where metal etching ends, electroforming starts. Galvanic processing allows the greatest possible exactness in producing precision metal parts.

Burr-free manufacturing of the parts, combined with the unmatched small component tolerances adds considerable value to your product. Whether a slit plate, a perforated plate or an encoder disk, with the LIGA process, temicon offers products for all of these applications.

 

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minimum

2µm

structure size
minimum +/-

500nm

tolerance
to

100%

burr-free