6 papers
Zero-waste manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses by direct Fluidic Shaping in arbitrary domains
Yotam Katzman, Mor Elgarisi, Amos A. Hari +4
The conventional manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses is an inefficient subtractive process where up to 97% of the material is discarded through grinding, polishing, and edging. Flui…
Modeling the Thermal Behavior of Photopolymers for In-Space Fabrication
Jonathan Ericson, Daniel Widerker, Eytan Stibbe +15
Future long-duration space missions will require in-situ, on-demand manufacturing of tools and components. Photopolymer-based processes are attractive for this purpose due to their…
In-space manufacturing of optical lenses: Fluidic Shaping aboard the International Space Station
Omer Luria, Mor Elgarisi, Eytan Stibbe +12
In-space manufacturing technologies are vital for enabling advanced space missions and addressing logistical limitations of space exploration. While additive manufacturing has prog…
Fluidic Approach to Corrective Eyewear Manufacturing in Low-Resource Settings
Mor Elgarisi, Omer Luria, Yotam Katzman +3
Limited access to corrective eyewear remains a significant medical, societal, and economic challenge, even in the 21st century. More than 1 billion people suffer from uncorrected v…
Fluidic Shaping and in-situ Measurement of Liquid Lenses in Microgravity
Omer Luria, Mor Elgarisi, Valeri Frumkin +9
In the absence of gravity, surface tension dominates over the behavior of liquids. While this often poses a challenge in adapting Earth-based technologies to space, it can also pro…
Fluidic Shaping of Freeform Optical Components
Mor Elgarisi, Valeri Frumkin, Omer Luria +1
Freeform optical components offer significant compactization of multi-lens systems, as well as advanced manipulation of light that is not possible with traditional systems. However…