Optics
Optical components are often embedded in products, allowing images to be captured or dynamic movements around the product to be sensed or monitored.
Micro-fabrication Optics
Micro-fabricated optics / micro optics is the field of optics dealing with particularly small optical components. The small physical dimensions have various implications concerning fabrication techniques, usable optical materials, relevant physical effects, performance limitations and the practical handling.
Refractive Optics
Refractive optics are classical focus lens with curved shapes that focus light to a bright spot at a certain distance. In Moveon, miniaturized refractive optics are fabricated and mass-produced using polymeric materials via micro-molding.
Fresnel Lens
Fresnel lens consists of a series of concentric grooves and are most often used in light gathering applications, such as condenser systems or emitter/detector setups.
Lens Arrays
Lens Arrays are used in many photonics based devices for various applications. Micro lens array (MLA) consists of an array of micron-scale lenses arranged and packed together. They are often injection molded and casted through replication process.
Spherical Lens
Spherical lenses are lenses having the shape of a sphere for on its surfaces. They are often used to focus, form images, and to collimate or expand light.
Aspherical Lens
Aspherical lenses are lenses having surface profiles that are not portions of a sphere such as elliptical, parabolic, hyperbolic, quadric, and toric lens.
Freeform Lens
Freeform lens is one of the modern optical technologies. With in-house diamond-turning capability, we now have the ability to manufacture lens designs that were inconceivable a decade ago.
Micro-Fluidics
Microfluidics has emerged as a distinct new field. It is the manipulation of fluids in channels with dimensions of tens of micrometers. The application of micro-fluidics goes beyond imaginations; from medical diagnostics, drug delivery, biological analysis to optics and information technology.
Nano-fabrication
Optics
Nano-fabricated Optics / Nano-optics is a valuably novel class of technology that takes advantage of light’s unique interaction with subwavelength, nano-scale patterned materials, and nanotechnology-enabled fabrication methods to create a broadly applicable optical device.
Diffractive Optics
Diffractive Optics / Diffractive Optical Elements (DOEs), are phase relief elements that uses micro-structures to alter the phase of the light propagated through them, and thus manipulate it in various ways to create shapes and light patterns that are either impossible to achieve in different methods using refractive optics, or require very complex, bulky and expensive optical components and / or systems.
Gratings
Diffraction gratings are thus widely used as dispersive elements in spectrographic instruments. They can also be used as beam splitters or beam combiners in various laser devices or interferometers. Other applications include acousto-optic modulators or scanners.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What simulation capabilities does Moveon have?
Moveon offers simulation capabilities including ray tracing for optical design, mold flow analysis for injection molding, and spectral simulation for optical coatings.
2. What design capabilities does Moveon have?
Moveon offers Design for Manufacturing (DFM) for all projects. DFM is a methodology focused on optimizing product design to enhance manufacturability, reduce costs, and improve overall production efficiency.
Our capabilities include designing refractive and diffractive optics, lens stacks, mechanical jigs and fixtures, injection mold tools, and camera modules.
3. What prototyping capabilities does Moveon have?
Moveon has a range of in-house prototyping capabilities to support rapid and precise product development. The selection of the most suitable process depends on several factors, including material system, part size, mechanical or optical requirements, and cost considerations.
Our prototyping processes include micro-scale 3D printing via Two-Photon Polymerization (2PP), direct diamond turning, nanoimprint replication, 3D inkjet printing, and micro-molding.
4. What size range of optics can Moveon support?
Moveon can manufacture optics ranging in size from as small as 500 µm × 500 µm (L × W) to as large as 300 mm × 200 mm (L × W).
5. What is the smallest feature size possible for nano- and micro-optics?
Moveon can manufacture optics with feature sizes as small as 200 nm.
6. What manufacturing processes does Moveon have in-house?
Moveon offers an extensive range of manufacturing processes, including injection molding, micro-molding, high-performance optical coatings, diamond turning, master and mold fabrication, optical replication, wafer-level nanoimprint manufacturing, and glass press molding.
7. What quality certifications does Moveon have?
Moveon is proudly ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001, and IATF 16949 certified, a testament to our quality and compliance commitment.
8. Does Moveon have high volume experience?
Yes, Moveon has extensive high-volume experience, having served over 150 customers and shipped more than 70 million optical parts for applications in consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and defense industries.