II-VI Incorporated Introduces High-Efficiency Multifunctional Metalenses for Ultracompact Optical Sensors
II-VI Incorporated (Nasdaq: IIVI) has unveiled high-efficiency multifunctional metalenses leveraging its proprietary platform, aimed at revolutionizing ultracompact optical sensors across sectors like consumer electronics, automotive, and life sciences. These diffractive optical elements enable multiple optical functions on a single surface, enhancing the performance of optical systems. With proven reliability from existing products, II-VI's innovation in 3D sensing cameras is anticipated to boost adoption in various applications, supported by its extensive VCSEL chip portfolio.
- Introduction of high-efficiency multifunctional metalenses for optical sensors.
- Potentially high market demand in consumer electronics and automotive sectors.
- Proven reliability of existing glass-based DOEs enhances credibility.
- Broad portfolio of products, including scalable VCSEL chips.
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PITTSBURGH, June 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- II‐VI Incorporated (Nasdaq: IIVI), a leading provider of wafer-level diffractive optics, today announced the introduction of high-efficiency multifunctional metalenses based on a II-VI proprietary platform that enables ultracompact optical sensors for a broad set of applications, including in consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and industrial markets.
Optical sensors are increasingly embedded in diverse products such as smartphones, automotive vehicles, medical diagnostics, and laser processing heads, driving the demand for more efficient miniature optical subsystems that are compact, reliable, and manufacturable at scale. II-VI’s new metalenses are diffractive optical elements (DOEs) that are flat and can achieve multiple optical functions with extremely high efficiency on a single surface for a broad range of wavelengths. In one implementation, II-VI’s metalens both collimates and splits the light from vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) into a highly uniform grid of thousands of infrared beams that are projected on the scene. Optical sensors reference these grids to accurately construct the scene in three dimensions.
“The high reliability of our glass-based DOEs are field-proven, as part of our optical communications products that we have been shipping in volume for years,” said Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, Chief Marketing Officer, II-VI Incorporated. “Furthermore, our metalenses can be utilized with our VCSELs to enable differentiated ultracompact 3D sensing cameras, spurring broader adoption in consumer electronics and automotive.”
II-VI’s broad portfolio of products for sensing includes infrared VCSEL chips, including multi-junction designs, from one to hundreds of emitters. II-VI VCSEL arrays are designed for low-cost non-hermetic packaging and can be reliably and cost-effectively scaled in total power by increasing the number of emitters per chip. II-VI VCSEL arrays are available as chips or integrated with DOEs in surface-mountable modules. II-VI’s DOEs include lenses, micro-lens arrays, diffusers, and splitters. II-VI also offers thin-film filters that are used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of image sensor arrays.
About II-VI Incorporated
II-VI Incorporated, a global leader in engineered materials and optoelectronic components, is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in communications, industrial, aerospace & defense, semiconductor capital equipment, life sciences, consumer electronics, and automotive markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the Company has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide. The Company produces a wide variety of application-specific photonic and electronic materials and components, and deploys them in various forms, including integrated with advanced software to support our customers. For more information, please visit us at www.ii-vi.com.
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