Additive Manufacturing in Optics and Photonics: Fabrication and applications

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Ricardo Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Nuno Valente (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

Additive Manufacturing in Optics and Photonics

Fabrication and applications

Ricardo Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal), Nuno Valente (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

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Institute of Physics Publishing
25 September 2025

Light (optics); Nanotechnology; Applied optics

Series: IOP Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics

Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, is reshaping how optical and photonic devices are designed and fabricated. This book introduces readers to the expanding role of AM in photonics, providing both foundational theory and practical insight into how these technologies are applied to create novel optical components. Aimed at graduate students and early-career researchers, the book surveys a broad spectrum of AM techniques relevant to photonics—including stereolithography, selective laser sintering, digital light processing and direct laser writing. Throughout, the book emphasizes the opportunities and current limitations of AM for photonic device engineering. It provides a practical entry point for those new to the field, while offering insights valuable to experienced researchers seeking to integrate 3D printing into their photonics workflow.

Key Features:

Emerging trends and prospects: Brings the most forefront progress in technologies and applications used in additive manufacturing for optics and photonics. Also, provides future prospects of this technology in different fields.

Wide range of industry applications: Additive manufacturing has huge potential to revolutionize optics and photonics fields. This will benefit several industries including telecommunications, sensors, healthcare, and aerospace, among others, that are strictly involved with optical technologies.

Demonstrates case studies: Shows the most up-to-date research works of successful applications and challenges of additive manufacturing in optics, offering practical insights and inspiration for people interested in learning or developing components and structures for optical projects.

Educational tool: It can serve as an educational resource for students, researchers, and professionals who want to learn more about the benefits of additive manufacturing in optics and photonics.

By: Ricardo Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações Portugal), Nuno Valente (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Imprint: Institute of Physics Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780750364317
ISBN 10: 0750364319
Series: IOP Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Additive manufacturing: an overview Three-dimensional printing of optical components Three-dimensional printing of optical waveguides Micro- and nanophotonic 3D printing: devices and applications

Ricardo Oliveira received his PhD in Physics Engineering from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2017, and his MSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2010. Throughout his career, Ricardo has contributed to 21 research projects focused on fibre optic technologies, particularly in the areas of sensing, devices, and communications.Ricardo is currently a Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações in Aveiro, where he serves as PI and co-Pi of different projects focused on additive manufacturing, multicore fibre applications, polymer optical fibres and sensors.Since 2018, Ricardo has held the position of Invited Professor in Applied Optics at the University of Aveiro's Physics Department. Ricardo has authored over 40 papers in leading international journals and more than 40 papers in international conference proceedings, including five invited contributions. He is also the first author of books and book chapters. His research interests include short- and long-period fibre gratings, fibre optic sensors, optical communications, polymer optical fibres, microstructured fibres, additive manufacturing, fibre post-processing and micro- and nano-scale 3D printing through two-photon polymerisation. Nuno Valente received his MSc degree in Physics Engineering at University of Aveiro, Portugal, in July 2023. He then worked as a researcher in a nationally funded project (FOPE-COMSENS - PTDC/EEI-TEL/1511/2020) at Instituto de Telecomunicações in Aveiro, Portugal. His areas of expertise include fibre optic sensors and components, such as fibre interferometers and fibre grating technology. His expertise extends to the field of freeform additive manufacturing of optical waveguides and components. Currently, Nuno works as a Calculation and Simulation Engineer at Bontaz, conducting simulations in fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, and performing structural analysis using ANSYS software.