Design and fabrication of optical homogenizer with micro structure by injection molding process

C.-C. A. Chen; S.-W. Chang; C.-J. Weng

doi:10.1117/12.804745

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26 August 2008 Design and fabrication of optical homogenizer with micro structure by injection molding process

C.-C. A. Chen, S.-W. Chang, C.-J. Weng

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Proceedings Volume 7058, Eighth International Conference on Solid State Lighting; 705807 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.804745
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

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This paper is to design and fabricate an optical homogenizer with hybrid design of collimator, toroidal lens array, and projection lens for beam shaping of Gaussian beam into uniform cylindrical beam. TracePro software was used to design the geometry of homogenizer and simulation of injection molding was preceded by Moldflow MPI to evaluate the mold design for injection molding process. The optical homogenizer is a cylindrical part with thickness 8.03 mm and diameter 5 mm. The micro structure of toroidal array has groove height designed from 12 μm to 99 μm. An electrical injection molding machine and PMMA (n= 1.4747) were selected to perform the experiment. Experimental results show that the optics homogenizer has achieved the transfer ratio of grooves (TRG) as 88.98% and also the optical uniformity as 68% with optical efficiency as 91.88%. Future study focuses on development of an optical homogenizer for LED light source.

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C.-C. A. Chen, S.-W. Chang, and C.-J. Weng "Design and fabrication of optical homogenizer with micro structure by injection molding process", Proc. SPIE 7058, Eighth International Conference on Solid State Lighting, 705807 (26 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.804745

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