Manufacturing Limitations and Their Mitigation in AR/VR Photonic Devices

How are metalenses and surface relief grating designs impacted by manufacturing limitations? This webinar explains why it’s a problem and provides insight into how simulating manufacturing processes can produce optical device designs that reduce manufacturing-limitation-driven performance degradation. In simulations, as-manufactured optical device performance approaches that of the ideal device design.

Photonics devices have been manufactured using Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing technology for decades, running at lower volumes – hundreds to a few thousand wafers annually – because the tools and methods accounted for manufacturing limitations. These same tools are not necessarily applicable to photonics devices. To keep pace with demand for consumer optical devices such as cell phones and sensing cameras, as well as AR/VR/MR devices that include metalenses, optical combiners, and micro imaging projectors, manufacturing volumes for such components will have to accelerate to match high-volume manufacturing. Join this webinar to learn how this is possible.