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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

3D printing goes micro

01 Jun 2017
This article first appeared in the 2017 Physics World Focus on Optics and Photonics

Ultrashort laser pulses could make it possible to manufacture micron-scale structures using 3D printing, but as Sönke Steenhusen explains, further advances in materials and printing technology are required to make the most of this promising technique

3D microprinting with two-photon polymerization
Fine structure (Courtesy: Fraunhofer ISC)
Over the past few years 3D printing has become one of the most-hyped topics in 21st century technolo

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Sönke Steenhusen is the deputy head of the optics and electronics department at Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg, Germany, e-mail soenke.steenhusen@isc.fraunhofer.de
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