Optifab 2023

OPTIFAB INNOVATORS
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.

New advancements in foundational Optifab topics:

• 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.

INDUSTRY
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.

Companies will be highlighting their latest developments in these technology areas. This is the best opportunity in 2023 to see presentations on the newest products. Companies interested in presenting their products must submit an abstract and final summary of the commercial presentation by the abstract due date in order to be considered.