High numerical aperture hybrid optics for two-photon polymerization

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7994-8005

  Burmeister, Frank ^a,b   Zeitner, Uwe D ^a,b   Nolte, Stefan ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; PHOTONS;

CORRECTION OF ABERRATIONS; DIRECT LASER WRITING; HIGH NA; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; HYBRID-OPTICS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; STRUCTURE SIZES; TWO PHOTON POLYMERIZATION; VOLUME STRUCTURING; WORKING DISTANCES;

POLYMERIZATION;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84859375221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007994     Document Type: Article

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