OptiML™ Micro-Optics

Advanced optical systems are required in most photonic applications, ranging from semiconductor equipment to data communication, defense, medical, industrial and consumer products. Driving optical efficiency and performance from 193nm to 14µm, DigitalOptics Corporation (DOC) OptiML family of customized micro optics meets these ever-increasing optical demands with precision and reliability, offering diffractive optical elements (DOEs), refractive optical elements (ROEs) and integrated micro-optic sub-assemblies (IMOS).

Diffusers                                     Arbitrary shape lens

Beam shapers Beam steering optics Pattern generators Gratings Homogenizers Beam splitters

Spot array generators   Lenses Chromatic correctors Collimating lenses Spherical and Aspheric lenses 1D and 2D micro lens array

OptiML DOEs are manufactured using high resolution lithographic techniques in combination with precision glass-etching. Using advanced Deep UV (DUV) tools enables DOC to provide its customers with customized, high-efficiency quality patterns of smaller features and tight overlay. The patterns are ideal for narrow spectrum optical systems, such as optical communication, gesture recognition, defense & security, biomedical applications and off-axis illumination elements.
OptiML ROEs, also manufactured using DOC's wafer-based lithographic technology, provide unmatched cost advantages for volume applications. Lenses can be formed on both the front and back surfaces and combined with state-of-the-art diffractive elements, mirrors, coatings, etc., to enable a high density of functionality through compact component integration. Applications include collimating lenses, aspheric lenses for IR imaging, and transceivers for optical communications.

OptiML IMOS products enable the seamless integration of wafer-level optics with active and passive devices including lasers, VCSELs, sensors, apertures and filters. Combining elements at the wafer level or die level enables significant size reduction, cost savings and improved performance. The functionality and versatility of OptiML IMOS make high-performance solutions possible in a wide range of applications, including gesture control, optical communications, machine vision.