The physics of 3D printing with light

P Somers, A Münchinger, S Maruo, C Moser… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The goal of 3D printing is to realize complex 3D structures by locally adding material in small
volume elements called voxels—in contrast to successively subtracting material by etching …

[PDF][PDF] Two-photon polymerization-based 4D printing and its applications

B Jian, H Li, X He, R Wang, HY Yang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Two-photon polymerization (TPP) is a cutting-edge micro/nanoscale three-dimensional (3D)
printing technology based on the principle of two-photon absorption. TPP surpasses the …

X-photon laser direct write 3D nanolithography

E Skliutas, D Samsonas, A Čiburys… - Virtual and Physical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Multiphoton photopolymerisation (MPP), also known as 3D nanoprinting, was studied using
a wavelength-tunable femtosecond laser. The possibility of using any colour of the spectrum …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-photon (7× 7)-focus 3D laser printer based on a 3D-printed diffractive optical element and a 3D-printed multi-lens array

P Kiefer, V Hahn, S Kalt, Q Sun, YM Eggeler… - Light: Advanced …, 2024 - light-am.com
One of the challenges in the field of multi-photon 3D laser printing lies in further increasing
the print speed in terms of voxels/s. Here, we present a setup based on a 7× 7 focus array …

Ink Formulation and Selection for Biological Applications of Two-Photon Polymerization

SM Panda, HG Hosseinabadi, H Fattel… - ACS Applied Optical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-photon polymerization (TPP) uses nonlinear light interactions in photo-cross-linkable
precursors to create high-resolution (∼ 100 nm) structures and high dimensional fidelity …

Calcination-Enhanced Laser-Induced Damage Threshold of 3D Micro-Optics Made with Laser Multi-Photon Lithography

D Gailevicius, R Zvirblis, K Galvanauskas… - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Laser Direct Writing (LDW), also known as 3D multi-photon laser lithography of resins, is a
promising technique for fabricating complex free-form elements, including micro-optical …

Nanofabrication: the unsung hero in enabling advances in nanophotonics

P Chengfeng, Z Shutao, M Farsari, SH Oh… - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics plays an important role in driving innovation in a growing number of fields
over the last several decades. Many of the innovations that impact our daily lives, eg …

[PDF][PDF] X-photon 3D lithography by fs-oscillators: wavelength-independent and photoinitiator-free

D Ladika, A Butkus, V Melissinaki, E Skliutas… - 2023 - assets-eu.researchsquare.com
Laser direct writing employing multi-photon 3D polymerisation is a scientific and industrial
tool used in various fields such as micro-optics, medicine, metamaterials, programmable …

Polarisation control in arrays of Microlenses and gratings: Performance in visible–IR spectral ranges

H Mu, D Smith, T Katkus, D Gailevičius, M Malinauskas… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microlens arrays (MLAs) which are increasingly popular micro-optical elements in compact
integrated optical systems were fabricated using a femtosecond direct laser write (fs-DLW) …

Push–Pull Carbazole-Based Dyes: Synthesis, Strong Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Response, and Effective Photoinitiation for Multiphoton Lithography

M Stavrou, G Zyla, D Ladika, F Dumur… - ACS Applied Optical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The present work reports on the ultrafast nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of a series of D−
π–Α and D–A push–pull carbazole-based dyes and establishes a correlation between these …