Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish
A.N. Shrotri, S. Preu, O. Stübbe, (2025).
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Additive manufacturing of optical, electrical and mechanical components is a beneficial approach for rapid prototyping of components and error elimination with short turn around times. However, additively manufactured components usually have rough surfaces which need post-processing, in particular for optical components where the surface roughness must be a small fraction of the wavelength. We demonstrate an innovative and economical approach by dip-coating with the same
resin as used for printing, providing high transparency of the 3D-printed optical components and reduced surface roughness with perfect index matching of the coating layer in a simple post processing step. The surface roughness of the 3D-printed optical components drops to 5 nm (arithmetic average) after the dip-coating process. We observed significant performance enhancement after comparing the unprocessed optical components and dip-coated optical components, including achieving optical transparency and shiny surface finish of previously rough surfaces.
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Shrotri AN, Preu S, Stübbe O. Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish. Published online 2025. doi:10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1
Shrotri, A. N., Preu, S., & Stübbe, O. (2025). Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1
Shrotri AN, Preu S and Stübbe O (2025) Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish.
Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra, Sascha Preu, and Oliver Stübbe. “Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish.” MDPI, 2025. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1.
Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra, Sascha Preu und Oliver Stübbe. 2025. Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish. MDPI. doi:10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1, .
Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra ; Preu, Sascha ; Stübbe, Oliver: Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish, MDPI (2025)
A.N. Shrotri, S. Preu, O. Stübbe, Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish, (2025).
A. N. Shrotri, S. Preu, and O. Stübbe, “Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish.” MDPI, 2025. doi: 10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1.
Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra, et al. Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish. MDPI, 2025, https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.1899.v1.
Shrotri, Abhijeet Narendra/Preu, Sascha/Stübbe, Oliver: Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish, o. O. 2025.
Shrotri AN, Preu S, Stübbe O. Achieving Transparency and Minimizing Loss of Rough Additively Manufactured Optical Components by a Dip-Coating Surface Finish. MDPI; 2025.
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