Potentials and Challenges of Generative Design for Additively Manufactured Freeform Optics

authored by

Simon Teves, Panpan Xia, Arved Ziebehl, Tobias Biermann, Tobias Grabe, Roland Johann Lachmayer

Abstract

The additive manufacturing of optical elements only partially exploits its design
freedom as suitable design methods are not available and process characteristics
complicate performance predictions. To account for this, a generative design
method that generates and evaluates multiple solutions in parallel is proposed.

Organisation(s)

PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
Institute of Motion Engineering and Mechanism Design
School for Additive Manufacturing

Type

Conference contribution

Publication date

2023

Publication status

Published

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.15488/15850 (Access: Open)