Publications by Jeremy Béguelin

Tolerancing the surface form of aspheric microlenses manufactured by wafer-level optics techniques

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

Tolerancing is an important step toward the fabrication of high-quality and cost-effective lens surfaces. It is critical for wafer-level optics, when up to tens of thousands microlenses are fabricated in parallel and whose surfaces cannot be formed individ ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Correction of spherical surface measurements by confocal microscopy

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses are nowadays widely used in optical systems. Characterizing their surface is essential to ensure their quality and to optimize their fabrication process. This is realized by optical surface profilers thanks to their vertical resoluti ...

2020

On the assessment of aspheric refractive microlenses

Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses and microlens arrays are key components for many applications such as optical data communication, laser and medical devices, or cameras. In particular, refractive micro-optics enables the miniaturization of high-tech systems but also ...

EPFL2020

Optical characterization of high numerical aperture microlenses for quality assessment and fabrication process optimization

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

Accurate characterization of high numerical aperture aspheric microlenses currently is a nonstandard procedure that remains an open challenge. Here, we present and discuss a characterization method based on interferometric and point spread function measure ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Specification of aspherical surfaces used as refractive elements in micro-optical systems

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

The optical performance of refractive plano-convex microlenses is mainly related to the quality of their (a)spherical surface. An efficient tolerancing of this surface is a key step towards the manufacturing of high quality microlenses. However, we demonst ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Leveraging wafer-level manufacturing process limitations to increase large scale fused silica microlens array uniformity

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin, Raoul Kirner

The wafer-level production of Fused Silica microlens arrays is limited by systematic process non-uniformities. The common molten resist-reflow process with subsequent dry-etching allows for manufacturing of microlens arrays on 200 mm wafers. A thorough pro ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Correction of surface error occurring in microlenses characterization performed by optical profilers

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

Characterizing the surface of microlenses by optical profilers has the important advantages of measurement speed, flexibility and automation. Nevertheless, the accuracy of such characterization is limited by error occurring in non-flat measurements. Here, ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Improvements on the uniformity of large-area microlens arrays in Fused Silica

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin, Raoul Kirner

The uniformity of large microlens arrays in Fused Silica is governed by the production process. It comprises photolithographic patterning of a spin-coated layer of photoresist on a 200mm wafer with a molten resist reflow process and subsequent dry etching. ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Assessing microlens quality based on 3D irradiance measurement at the focal spot area

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin, Michail Symeonidis

During the fabrication process of microlenses, characterization is essential for two purposes: evaluate the optical quality of the element and provide surface information feedback for process optimization. However, no technique can fulfill these two object ...

2018

Improved calibration of vertical scanning optical profilometers for spherical profiles measurements

Wilfried Noell, Toralf Scharf, Jeremy Béguelin

A new method for calibrating optical scanning profilometers is presented. Especially adapted to spherical and aspherical profile measurements, it shows an increase of accuracy bigger than one order of magnitude for radius of curvature measurements. Calibra ...

2018