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SPIE.Photonics West 2026German Exhibitors Printoptix GmbH

Printoptix GmbH

Booth number: 4205-36
printoptix.com/

About us

Printoptix designs, develops, and fabricates unique micro-optical components on a scale from 2 µm to 4.5 mm and on a variety of substrates such as optical fiber tips, image sensors, or LEDs. Printoptix offers the whole process—from the customer's idea for a micro-optical part to the finished and optimized product and even series production—under one roof. With over 10 years of experience in 3D-printing micro-optical components, the company has developed a deep understanding of the challenges and especially the possibilities in designing and manufacturing micro-optical components and systems.

Address

Printoptix GmbH
Nobelstr. 15
70569 Stuttgart
Germany

E-mail: sales@printoptix.com
Phone:  +49 157 85006381
Internet: printoptix.com/

Contact person:

Nils Fahrbach
CEO
E-mail: fahrbach@printoptix.com

Dr. Simon Thiele
CTO
E-mail: thiele@printoptix.com

Dr. Antonia Gronle
Metrology System Specialist
E-mail: a.gronle@printoptix.com

Kay Glaser
Microfabrication Specialist
E-mail: k.glaser@printoptix.com

Products & Services

Fiber optic components, equipment, systems
Optical components and hardware
Optical communications
Lenses and filters

Printoptix offers very individualized products and processes. We can take you through the whole development of your specific micro-optical systems for your applications - from the design of the optical components and simulation of the performance through extremely quick prototyping (prototypes can be done in a matter of days) all the way to 3D-printing series production of your optical systems.

We also offer off-the-sheld products such as micro objective for imaging on sensors or patchcables with integrated beamshapers. These can be easily be modified for your needs. If you for examoke beed a different beamshaoe or a specifiy substrate - yjst let us know, we are happy to find an individual solution!

Micro Objective Lenses

Custom all-aspheric imaging objectives in the smallest possible form factors.

Perfectly aligned all-freeform lens stacks.
Our entirely new approach to lens fabrication leads you to optical solutions that were previously unthinkable.

 

Shortest development cycles thanks to 3D printing.

First prototypes in two weeks.
Ramp up to series production within one month.

Specifications

Size Ranges:  100 µm to 5 mm, very short variants possible

Freeform surfaces that are inherently alignment free

Field of view range: 10° – 160°

Surface roughness < 10 nm RMS

Shape errors:  less than diameter/1000 PTV

Direct integration of black apertures and baffles

Custom geometry adaptions

Biocompatible polymers that are longterm stable and autoclavable 

Highly transparent

Printing on sensors with < 1 µm alignment precision in x, y, and z


Fiber Tip Optics

Powerful optical components perfectly aligned to the fiber mode field.
Our approach of direct fabrication on the fiber tips anables highly precise fiber optical systems.

Specifications:

Optical quality with feature sizes <1 µm

Freeform, segmented or diffractive surfaces

Surface roughness <10 nm RMS. Shape errors <diameter/1000 PTV

Custom integration of absorbing structures and encapsulation

Direct integration of optics into common fiber connectors

Highly transparent material with low fluorescence

Biocompatible optics

Direct alignment to fiber mode field with <1 µm precision

Examples:

Lensed fibers

OCT probes

Fiber-to-PIC coupling lenses

Mode matching lenses

Beam shaping

Chromatic fiber probes

Objective lenses on fibers

Arrays & Mastering

stom optical arrays with freeform shapes, high aspect ratios and 100% fill factor. The 3D-Printing approach allows for almost unlimited design freedom and multiple options for replication. 

Specifications:

Array lateral dimensions from <100 x 100 µm² to 6″ wafer size

Lenses or unit cells sized from 3 µm to 2 mm, fill factors up to 100%

Surface roughness: <10 nm RMS

Shape errors <diameter/1000 PTV

Element aspect ratios (height to diameter) of > 10

Printing on any flat substrate like glass, sensors or fiber tips.

Alignment precision in x, y and z: < 1 µm

Custom geometry adaptions

Biocompatible optics

Freeform elements, variable pitch, undercuts, randomised structures

Mastering Examples:

Step & repeat scale-up

Soft stamps

Hard stamps

Array Examples:

Micro-displays

Coupling optics

Sensors

Micro-optical components

3D-Printing of micro-optical components allows for highly unusual and complex optics that open up entirely new applications.

Specifications:

Size range:  100 µm to 5 mm

Freeform surfaces with undercuts are possible

Surface roughness:  <10 nm RMS

Shape errors:  less than diameter/1000 PTV

Alignment-free integration of absorbing structures
Highly transparent material with low fluorescence

Biocompatible optics

Integration of mounting structures with no alignment errors

Examples:

Lenses

Prisms

Diffractive parts

TIR lenses

Lensed prisms

Fresnel lenses

Hybrid components

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