The printing techniques they report also could prove valuable in production of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Microscopic image of a printed glass demonstration structure on tip of optical fiber.

For the first time, researchers have shown that 3D-printed polymer-based micro-optics can withstand the heat and power levels that occur inside a laser. The advance enables inexpensive, compact, and ...

…and UK’s EPSRC awards £1.2 million grant to Aston’s Picometer Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics project. 3D printing 1,000 times smaller than a grain of sand. In what is described as “a first for ...