We manufacture optical diffusers with customizable scattering profiles and optional frosted or non-frosted finishes, using Printoptical® 3D printing to combine precision functionality with design freedom. Applications range from architectural lighting and display backlighting to glare reduction in consumer products.
We design and manufacture custom textured optical surfaces with optional frosted, matte, or glossy finishes, combining functional light manipulation with decorative visual effects through Printoptical® 3D printing. These textured optics are often applied in packaging, brand design, and experiential lighting solutions.
We provide tailored design support to translate optical concepts into manufacturable 3D printed optics, combining creativity with technical expertise to accelerate product development. Typical applications include lighting systems, optical sensors, and decorative Optographix® elements for brand integration.
We produce custom freeform facet lenses using Printoptical® 3D printing, enabling precise beam shaping and compact optical designs without the need for molds. Facet lenses are well suited for illumination, projection, and sensing applications where tailored light distribution is required – “Light where Needed”.
Light Guiding Elements are structures that are designed to efficiently control and direct the path of light using principles like total internal reflection or diffraction. We design and manufacture custom Light Guiding Elements with specific or randomly added light guiding features, such as micro lenses, prisms or frosted features, combining functional surface manipulation with performance gradients utilizing Printoptical® 3D printing. Light Guiding Elements are applied in automotive, general lighting, photovoltaic, display and sign industries, to improve light efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and manage light distribution.
We manufacture custom reflector components with integrated freeform geometries, produced directly by Printoptical® 3D printing for efficient and flexible light control. Typical uses include LED lighting fixtures, optical instruments, and compact illumination systems.
We offer rapid optical prototyping using our proprietary Printoptical® technology, delivering functional prototypes with smooth surfaces and fine detail within days. These prototypes are ideal for testing and validation in applications such as LED lighting, high tech systems, and consumer product development.
Alfamation’s Wafer Level Optical Tester (WALOT) is a modular test platform allowing optical functional testing on wafers.
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We offer an integrated software platform that unifies the design workflow for metasurfaces and flat optical systems. By combining nanoscale simulations, metasurface assembly, and system-level integration in one environment, our software makes advanced optical design faster, more accessible, and easier to scale from research to industry.
We provide tailored design and fabrication services for flat and meta-optics, helping our partners to accelerate innovation from concept to production. By combining advanced optical modelling, system integration expertise, and strong links to manufacturing partners, we deliver custom solutions optimized for performance, manufacturability, and scalability.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH delivers tailored optical solutions using ray tracing, FDTD, and proprietary multiscale algorithms. Our unique freeform micro-optics and metaoptics expertise enables innovations from large-scale illumination to advanced nanophotonic devices.
PowerPhotonic offers advanced fused silica master fabrication for replicated optics using proprietary laser machining and smoothing processes. Our technology enables the production of high-precision freeform surfaces, ideally suited for high-fidelity replication in volume optical manufacturing.
LightForge™ is a low-cost rapid prototyping service that gives optical designers the ability to create innovative new freeform surfaces, test new ideas, and verify designs for production without incurring expensive upfront engineering charges and lengthy prototyping lead times.
Wielandts UPMT offers ultra-precise, fully populated lens array masters using its patented DPI® (Dynamic Part Indexing) technology. These masters feature high form accuracy, surface quality, and geometric flexibility, including aspheres and freeforms, with 100% fill factor and sharp transitions.
We help technology companies in AR/VR, medical devices, and consumer electronics transform innovative optical concepts into market-ready products. Backed by over 20 years of engineering excellence, we deliver high-performance, cost-effective solutions tailored to your goals — optimizing for quality, risk, and time-to-market.
We are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge engineering and system design solutions, with a focus on automotive and optical technologies. Our strength lies in combining precision engineering with innovative thinking to create components and systems that meet the highest standards in performance, manufacturability, and aesthetics. With a growing emphasis on micro-optics, we are expanding our capabilities into new technological frontiers, helping our clients bring advanced optical solutions from concept to reality.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd offers services using a R2R pilot converting line for foil processing.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd provides services using a R2R assembly pilot line for assembling SMD components on flexible foil circuits.
The Desktop R2P NanoImprinter is suitable for small-scale nanoimprint lithography work. This device is ideal for fast prototyping, testing, and characterisation of the property of a topology, photo-curable resins and imprinting materials.
Micro- and nano structuring services for molds made of steel and other materials, enabling surface functions such as Anti Reflective, Anti Glare, Superhydrophobicity or even meta surfaces.
Nanocomp Oy Ltd offers Roll-to-Roll (R2R) UV imprint replication for high-resolution, cost-effective mass production of optical components. This process uses UV curable resin to replicate micro and nano-structures on flexible substrates, ideal for light guides, diffractive optical elements, and microlens arrays.
Nanocomp Oy Ltd offers high-precision grayscale direct write laser lithography for nano- and microstructures. This advanced technology enables binary and continuous profiles with structures up to 45 cm² in area, providing accurate tooling for applications in automotive, electronics, lighting, and more.
Nanocomp Oy Ltd manufactures customizable microlens array (MLA) films using UV roll-to-roll imprinting, offering high precision and cost-efficient mass production. These ultra-thin, flexible films are ideal for applications in displays, sensors, fiber couplers, and 3D imaging, providing excellent optical performance and customizable shapes.
Nanocomp Oy Ltd offers ultra-thin Fresnel lens films using UV embossing and customizable lens shapes. These films provide excellent optical performance with minimal fringe visibility, ideal for applications like LED light shaping, sensor optics, and laser beam shaping, with customizable focal lengths and profiles.
Morphotonics B.V. offers UV-Nanoimprint Lithography (UV-NIL) replication for large substrates (up to 1.1m). This cost-effective technology enables mass production of precise micro/nanostructures for applications in displays, lighting, sensors, and solar panels, with textures ranging from 50 nm to 500 µm.
We specialize in femtosecond laser and nanosecond laser services: laser microstructuring, laser texturing (functional and design) and industrial engraving for moulds, tools and pieces over 3D or flat surfaces. We work both for production project and for R&D for all kind of markets.
LASEA specializes in precision micro machining using ultra-short femtosecond laser technology. We offer services including laser marking, engraving, cutting, welding, and texturing. Key benefits include flexibility, versatility, high accuracy, and non-contact processes with reproducible results. The processing area ranges from a few millimeters up to 1 meter.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH offers Step and Repeat nanoimprint lithography for large-scale production of flexible shims and prototypes. Using a modified EVG770 NIL stepper, this process enables high-precision, cost-effective production for photonics, functional surfaces, and microfluidic systems, with a substrate size of up to 270x700mm.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH offers Roll-to-Roll (R2R) manufacturing for optical, optoelectronic, and electronic components. This process enables mass production of micro- and nanostructures on flexible substrates, with tailored UV resin properties. It supports sustainable, cost-effective product development in biotechnology, nanotechnology, and advanced manufacturing.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH offers rapid prototyping of complex 3D plastic optical components using patented technology. This process combines sub-microstructures with 3D optics to enable innovative applications in optoelectronics, robotics, and more, supporting miniaturization, system integration, and cost reduction.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH offers mask-less laser lithography for cost-effective, high-resolution sub-micro and microstructure fabrication. This digital process supports rapid prototyping and master fabrication for optics, microfluidics, and electronics, enabling flexible designs on flat and curved substrates with precision up to 300 nm.
We offer a novel print head for direct micro additive fabrication of multi-material micro-optics using 2-photon polymerization. This enables fast prototyping and medium volume production of precisely aligned, compacted composite systems like lens stacks of different refractive index materials.
Customized micro Fresnel lenslets may support your illumination application. Fraunhofer IOF generates Fresnel lenslets by grayscale photolithography with quasi continuous surface profile. We offer Fresnel lenslets in fused silica, Si, or Ge for applications from UV to MIR or as polymer on glass.
Industrial scale contract manufacturing partner for R2R UV-imprinting of foil materials in roll widths of up to 1600 mm (also small volumes in smaller widths possible). Full service provider incl. sourcing of raw materials, manufacturing, converting, packaging, etc.
We are a market leader and premium partner when it comes to optical grade polymers – manufactured on wafer-level. Micro-optics and nanostructures are key technologies for the latest miniaturized optoelectronic components in smartphones, smart glasses and vehicles.
We provide vacuum web coating plants for coating of flexible materials with optical, electrical and decorative functional layers and barrier layers via sputtering techniques and magnetron PECVD processes. Line speed of up to 100 meters per minute can be achieved.
We provide feasibility studies, samples for tests, pilot production, technology and licences transfer and modification on existing coating plants.
We offer advanced material characterization services, including surface, optical, and mechanical testing, as well as material stability assessments. Techniques include SEM, AFM, WLI, spectrometry, and more.
We develop coatings and layer systems on flat substrates using sputtering technologies. Our special expertise is in the field of pulse magnetron sputtering (PMS) and the control of reactive sputter processes and their optimization for application-relevant requirements.
CSEM SA offers Step & Repeat UV-imprint Lithography for scaling nano- and microstructures from small masters onto large substrates which form the basis for the tooling needed in roll-to-roll and roll-to-plate mass-production.
CSEM SA provides electroforming for wafer-scale and large-area Ni shims. This process creates precise masters and second-generation copies for scaling and replication (e.g., R2P, R2R UV imprint).
CSEM SA offers Roll-to-Plate (R2P) UV-NIL replication, enabling precise micro- and nanostructures on large substrates (up to 600x1200mm, 0.5–10mm thick) for cost-effective mass production. Applications span AR/VR, healthcare, optics, solar, and more, ensuring high throughput and innovative photonics solutions.
CSEM SA offers wafer-scale UV-NIL replication services for microlenses, arrays, and freeform micro-optical elements. Supporting AR/VR, automotive, and healthcare, they ensure alignment precision below 2 microns, handle materials like glass and polymers, and produce up to 100 wafers/year on 6-inch wafers.
We offer wafer-scale technical services for originating micro-lens arrays via photolithography and thermal reflow with customizable shapes, sizes, and array patterns for diverse markets.
CSEM SA designs and manufactures micro-lenses and arrays for AR/VR, automotive, and healthcare. We offer prototyping, UV-NIL replication, thermal reflow, and wafer-scale UV imprinting up to 6 inches. Services include metrology, integration, and packaging to scale production.
CSEM SA provides characterization & quality control services through surface profiling (AFM, SEM, 3D profilometry), optical analysis, and material stability testing, enabling precise surface measurements up to 60×60 cm².
CSEM SA offers optical simulation and design services for industries like AR/VR, automotive, and healthcare. Using tools like Zemax and MATLAB, they optimize light interactions, develop optical components, apply freeform optics, and provide CAD, AI solutions, and manufacturability checks.
Laser dicing of fully processed glass wafers into dies for e.g. micro-optical devices can be provided as a service for early development. For scaling of manufacturing, fully automated process solutions can be offered for many different applications.
CEA-Leti offers a wafer-scale micro-lens array masters made from silicon (Si) and silicon dioxide (SiO₂), utilizing dry and wet etching with lithography. The array is customized to client specifications, enabling microlenses as small as 2 μm with no gaps. The lens arrays can span a full wafer (200 mm Si) or smaller areas as needed, with guaranteed uniformity across the surface.
Focuslight provides wafer-scale microimprint solutions for automotive, healthcare, imaging, and packaging. Features include lens sizes <3 mm, arrays from 2–200 mm, and edge slopes <40°, enabling cost-effective production of complex optical components with freeform designs and high fill factors.
Focuslight provides wafer-scale etched microlenses for imaging, displays, and optics. Made from fused silica or silicon, they offer NAs of 0.09–0.6 and customizable arrays. Using reflow, photolithography, and dry etching, they ensure high precision for fiber optics, photonics, and laser systems.
Focuslight offers high-precision diffractive optical elements (DOEs) for AR/VR, imaging, lighting, and security applications. Manufactured using photolithography and dry etching, these DOEs provide up to 96% efficiency with feature sizes from 500 nm to 1 µm. They are ideal for beam shaping, spot generation, and metrology.
CEA offers wafer-scale nanoimprinting services using soft UV-NIL technology, ideal for industries like AR/VR, automotive, and healthcare. This method enables high-throughput patterning on silicon or glass wafers with features down to nanometers. Key specifications include minimum pattern widths of 45 nm, high uniformity (<1% variation), and low defectivity (<10 defects/cm²). Capabilities support 2D, 3D, and freeform shapes, allowing versatile design for custom optical applications.
We offer micro-optics including microlenses, lens arrays, diffractive optical elements (DOE)s. Our micro-optics products can enable all kinds of optical transceivers in Communication, 3D sensing & Lidar, and also serve for beam shaping in industrial & medical tools.
Nickel shims are electroformed to have multiple copies of a structure from a master and are widely used in prototyping and industrial production. The electroforming process transfers the structures very reliably down to the nanometres level. The family of shims can be produced for long term safet
