Laser Cutting

Laser-cutting, -engraving, -marking

Tunable Beamer

Beam Projection

Microscope

Imaging

APPLICATION FIELDS & MARKETS

  • Imaging: lightweight & compact zoom optics for cameras, mobile phones or microscopes, adjustable eyeglasses, human eye like imaging systems
  • High Power: laser-engraving, -marking & -cutting, scanheads for highpower applications
  • Beam projection: adjustable illumination systems, lamps & headlights,varifocal automotive lighting, scanners, projectors, printers, etc.
  • Laboratory equipment: adjustable multipurpose devices for optical prototyping, etc.
  • Scientific and front-end: laser beam shaping & modulation, production of doughnut beams in optical tweezers & interferometers, etc.
  • Further applications: thermography, infrared imaging, applications for terahertz radiation, varifocal ultra-sound lenses

Summary: Special high-end applications as well as numerous low-end mass products. Offset optical power can be implemented, optical efficiency up to 90%, chromatic aberrations computationally reducible, combination with “standard” optics (e.g. glass lenses) permits compensation of dispersion effects.

Optical efficiency up to 90%

Due to its high efficiency, the lens can also be used for high-power lasers (cutting, engraving, etc.).

Compact and lightweight design

The lens is much more compact than conventional optics and can also be used where little space is available.

Large optical power range

Continuous-, simple- and exact variation of optical properties within a wide range (e.g. D = ± 25 dpt).

Tunable Lens

The Moiré Lens enables dynamical focusing.

Applications

  • Autofocus or zoom optics for minicameras in smartphones or drones as well as infrared cameras
  • Volumetric imaging and 3D-laser processing
  • Tunable lens for automotive industry, barcode scanning and terahertz applications
  • Varifocal lens for ophthalmology

Tunable Axicon

Generate a tunable axicon with the Moiré Lens to dynamically modulate self-healing beams.

Applications

  • Dynamical trapping of micrometer sized structures like cells
  • Generation of variable self-healing beams or light rings in laser processing and drilling
  • Adapting depth of field in imaging processes
  • Dynamic beam modulation in laser surgery

Tunable Phase Shifter

The Moiré Lens principle enables the realization of an infinity phase shifter.

Applications

  • Frequency shifter in high precision spectroscopy
  • Phase control in interferometry
  • Optical coherence tomography
  • Atom trapping and quantum manipulation

Tunable Helical Beam

With the Moiré Lens the steepness of a staircase-like phase front can be adjusted to produce a ring focus of variable diameter.

Applications

  • Trapping and rotating micrometer sized structures like cells
  • Variably highlight object edges in light microscopy
  • Drilling rings of variable size in laser processing
  • Enhancing bit rate in telecommunication by dynamic beam multiplexing