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Conference OFB23
Optifab 2023
This conference has an open call for papers:
Abstract Due: 14 June 2023
Manuscript Due: 27 September 2023
OPTIFAB INNOVATORS
We are seeking technical papers, new commercial technology presentations, and posters in the following topics:
Focus topics:
Present your product breakthroughs.
OptiFab 2023 will also feature commercial presentations from the leading optical companies in the following areas:
We are seeking technical papers, new commercial technology presentations, and posters in the following topics:
Focus topics:
- automated manufacturing – robotic assisted manufacturing, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), and software for the optical fabrication industry
- high-volume and high-precision optics manufacturing – injection molding, glass molding, and lithographic processes.
- materials and material sciences – optical glasses, polymers, crystals, infrared materials, ultraviolet materials, optical mold insert materials for glass or polymer molding, and optical adhesives
- grinding, polishing, and new methods of surface finishing – loose and bound abrasive, CNC generation, diamond turning, ion figuring, laser polishing water-jet cutting and removal processes, laser processing, sub-aperture lap polishing, and mid-spatial frequency smoothing
- process science – materials, abrasives, coolants, tooling, for grinding and polishing that are selected for cost reduction and flow optimization
- molding – injection molding, glass molding, tool design, and mold materials
- design for manufacturing – optical design considerations for manufacturability including, but not limited to, material choice, error budgets, tolerances, optical standards (ISO 10110), mounting, assembly, and testing
- metrology – interferometry, profilometry, MTF measurement, ellipsometry, scatterometry, visual inspection equipment, surface/subsurface metrology and use of alignment fiducials in measurement, manufacturing and assembly
- cleaning and contamination – cleaning and inspection techniques, packaging, and surface contamination
- functional coating technology – all types of optical coatings on glass, metal, plastics, and crystalline materials
- optomechanical design – assembly, including in-line alignment/metrology, interactivity and data interfaces between optical design programs, mechanical design programs, fabrication equipment, and metrology instrumentation
- next-generation optical fabrication workforce – technician training, apprenticeship programs and outreach programs.
Present your product breakthroughs.
OptiFab 2023 will also feature commercial presentations from the leading optical companies in the following areas:
- new developments in optical materials
- new developments in freeform surface design, fabrication, and measurement
- advanced optical fabrication equipment
- coating equipment
- metrology equipment (phase measuring, image quality measuring, and surface measuring)
- current events impacting the field of optical fabrication.
What you will need to submit
- Title
- Author(s) information
- Speaker biography
- 250-word abstract for technical review
- 100-word summary for the program
- Keywords used in search for your paper (optional)