Two-Photon Polymerization Lithography for Optics and Photonics: Fundamentals, Materials, Technologies, and Applications

Hao WANG, Wang ZHANG, Dimitra LADIKA, Haoyi YU, Darius GAILEVIČIUS, Hongtao WANG, Cheng Feng PAN, Parvathi Nair Suseela NAIR, Yujie KE, Tomohiro MORI, John You En CHAN, Qifeng RUAN, Maria FARSARI, Mangirdas MALINAUSKAS, Saulius JUODKAZIS, Min GU, Joel K.W. YANG*

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Abstract

The rapid development of additive manufacturing has fueled a revolution in various research fields and industrial applications. Among the myriad of advanced 3D printing techniques, two-photon polymerization lithography (TPL) uniquely offers a significant advantage in nanoscale print resolution, and has been widely employed in diverse fields, for example, life sciences, materials sciences, mechanics, and microfluidics. More recently, by virtue of the optical transparency of most of the resins used, TPL is finding new applications in optics and photonics, with nanometer to millimeter feature dimensions. It enables the minimization of optical elements and systems, and exploration of light-matter interactions with new degrees of freedom, never possible before. To review the recent progress in the TPL related optical research, it starts with the fundamentals of TPL and material formulation, then discusses novel fabrication methods, and a wide range of optical applications. These applications notably include diffractive, topological, quantum, and color optics. With a panoramic view of the development, it is concluded with insights and perspectives of the future development of TPL and related potential optical applications.
Original languageEnglish
Article number2214211
Number of pages51
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume33
Issue number39
Early online date22 Mar 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Sept 2023
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

H.W. and W.Z. contributed equally to this work. H.W. and J.K.W.Y. acknowledge the support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore, under its Competitive Research Programme award NRF-CRP20-2017-0004 and NRF Investigatorship Award NRF-NRFI06-2020-0005, as well as the MTC Programmatic grant M21J9b0085. H.Y. and M.G. acknowledge the support from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (grant no. 21DZ1100500), the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project, the Shanghai Frontiers Science Center Program (2021-2025 No. 20), the Zhangjiang National Innovation Demonstration Zone (grant no. ZJ2019-ZD-005), and China Postdoctoral Research Foundation (grant no. 5B22904001 and 3722904006). D.L. thanks the support from Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund-ESF) through the Operational Programme–Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning–in the context of the Act “Enhancing Human Resources Research Potential by Undertaking a Doctoral Research” and IKY Scholarship Programme for PhD candidates in the Greek Universities (2022-050-0502-52271). M.F. thanks the grant from European Union under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (G.A. No. 964481–IN2SIGHT and 824996–PULSE). D.G. acknowledges the support from European Social Fund (project no 09.3.3-LMT-K712-17-0016) under the grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT). M.M. acknowledges the support from LASERLAB-EUROPE grant agreement no. 871124, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. S.J. is grateful for partial support by the ARC DP190103284 grant.

Keywords

  • 3D printing
  • additive manufacturing
  • direct laser writing
  • light-matter interaction
  • optics and photonics
  • two-photon polymerization lithography

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