@misc{7670,
  abstract     = {{Additive manufacturing (AM) and rapid prototyping process (RPP) have revolutionized the production of 3D objects in the last few decades. RPP has considerably increased the rate of production and the possibility of manufacturing prototypes in the fields of electrical, optical, and mechanical engineering. The manufacturing of optical prototypes including spherical, aspheric, and special kinds of lenses and lens arrays has reformed the fabrication of optical components. In this paper, specifically designed lens array prototypes for application in visible light communication (VLC) are introduced. These lens array prototypes are manufactured using the stereolithography apparatus (SLA) process. These lens arrays are designed to achieve optimal transmission of the light beam for VLC systems. One of the prototypes from the lens arrays contains primarily four spherical lenses and one thicker convex lens and the other contains one fresnel lens as a substitute for thicker convex lens. These lens arrays are further post-processed to achieve the required transparency. These lens array prototypes are tested using laser and LEDs. The ON-OFF keying modulated light beam was transmitted through the lens array at the sender side and focused on the photo-receiver using another lens array at the receiver side which is 200 cm apart. After evaluating these lens prototypes, it can be concluded that with appropriate post-processing and high-resolution stereolithography based manufacturing, a low data rate VLC link can be formed.}},
  author       = {{Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra and Beyer, Micha and Schneider, Daniel Johann and Stübbe, Oliver}},
  booktitle    = {{Laser 3D Manufacturing VIII}},
  editor       = {{Helvajian, Henry and Gu, Bo and Chen, Hongqiang}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-5106-4189-1}},
  issn         = {{1996-756X}},
  keywords     = {{Additive manufacturing, 3D printing, Stereolithography apparatus, Spherical lenses, Fresnel lenses, Visible light communication}},
  location     = {{San Francisco }},
  publisher    = {{Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers}},
  title        = {{{Manufacturing of lens array prototypes containing spherical and fresnel lenses for visible light communications using stereolithography apparatus}}},
  doi          = {{10.1117/12.2586907}},
  volume       = {{11677}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}

@misc{7676,
  author       = {{Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra and Beyer, Micha and Stübbe, Oliver}},
  booktitle    = {{3D Printed Optics and Additive Photonic Manufacturing II : 6-10 April 2020, online only, France }},
  editor       = {{von Freymann, Georg and Herkommer, Alois M. and Flury, Manuel}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-5106-3470-1}},
  issn         = {{1996-756X}},
  keywords     = {{Fresnel lenses, Stereolithography apparatus, 3D printing, Photo-polymerization}},
  location     = {{Strasbourg (online)}},
  publisher    = {{SPIE}},
  title        = {{{Manufacturing and analyzing of cost-efficient fresnel lenses using stereolithography}}},
  doi          = {{10.1117/12.2555367}},
  volume       = {{11349}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}

@misc{7679,
  author       = {{Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra and Beyer, Micha and Stübbe, Oliver}},
  booktitle    = {{	 Production engineering and management : proceedings 9th international conference, October 03 and 04, 2019, Trieste, Italy}},
  editor       = {{Padoano, Elio and Villmer, Franz-Josef}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-946856-04-7}},
  keywords     = {{3D printing, stereolithography, optical lens, light forming structures, convex lenses, concave lenses, refraction of light, focal length}},
  location     = {{Trieste}},
  pages        = {{227--240}},
  publisher    = {{Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe}},
  title        = {{{Evaluation of stereolithograghy processes for the production of lens prototypes}}},
  volume       = {{2019, 01}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}

@inproceedings{554,
  abstract     = {{Light guiding structures, like optical waveguides or fibers, take an important role in several industries, e.g. communication, sensing, illumination or medical applications. For the latter, it could be very interesting to have the possibility to manufacture problem-adapted structureswith a mechanicalfunctionality andwith additional embedded optical or electrical sensor functionalities.Modern additive manufacturing (AM) technologies like Stereolithography (SLA) or Fused Layer Modeling (FLM) may provide these opportunities.This paper is aimedto figure out the light guiding opportunities of both technologies. For this different kind of structures are built by FLM and SLA. To compare both manufacturing technologies, the layout of each structure is identical for both technologies. After manufacturing, the transmission and the attenuation of the guided light of these structures areanalyzed by measurement.Then the measurement results of the different technologies are compared with each other.}},
  author       = {{Beyer, Micha and Stübbe, Oliver and Villmer, Franz-Josef}},
  booktitle    = {{Production engineering and management : proceedings 8th international conference, October 04 and 05, 2018, Lemgo, Germany}},
  editor       = {{Villmer, Franz-Josef and Padoano, Elio}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-946856-03-0}},
  keywords     = {{Additive manufacturing, Embedded optical waveguides, Optical sensors, SLA technology, FLM technology}},
  location     = {{Lemgo}},
  number       = {{1}},
  pages        = {{70--82}},
  title        = {{{Comparsion of FLM and SLA Processing Technologies Towards Manufacturing of Optical Waveguides for Communicationi and Sensing Applications}}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}