Sub-micrometre accurate free-form optics by three-dimensional printing on single-mode fibres

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gissibl, Timo ^a   Thiele, Simon ^a   Herkommer, Alois ^a   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CRYSTAL; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; FEMTOSECOND LASER; MICROOPTICS; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

EID: 84976510951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11763     Document Type: Article

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