Topics
LIGHTFAB is by essence an interdisciplinary and highly collaborative initiative
It sits at the intersection of photonics, materials science, and advanced manufacturing, combining expertise from multiple disciplines to push the boundaries of light-driven fabrication. The topics integrate optical engineering for advanced light shaping, materials chemistry and processing for multi-material polymers, glasses, and metals, and mechanical and additive manufacturing engineering for scalable and precise 3D fabrication of complex structures. LIGHTFAB also intends to discuss novel AI-driven manufacturing approaches. Thus the main topics can be summarized as follow:
Additive manufacturing for photonic applications
- Complex photonic architectures for integrated circuits, metasurfaces, optical sensors, lab-on-chip and freeform optics
- Hybrid photonic structures for plasmonic and quantum photonic devices, photonic-enabled energy devices
Additive manufacturing enabled by photonics
- Advanced light shaping (beam structuring, ultrafast modulation) for precise, localized energy delivery.
- Multi-material additive processing that hybridize polymers, glasses and metals
- Multi-scale additive processing from nanoscale structuring in polymers to mesoscale sintering of metals and localized melting of glass
Light-driven additive manufacturing and beyond
- Laser structuring of glasses and metals
- Advanced laser welding processes
- AI tools for advanced additive manufacturing