会议名称(中文)：  2014年SPIE聚合物光学及模压玻璃光学会议 
会议名称(英文)：  Polymer Optics and Molded Glass Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Materials IV 
所属学科：  光学,材料科学基础学科,无机非金属材料 
开始日期：  2014-08-17 
结束日期：  2014-08-21 
所在国家：  美国 
所在城市：  美国 
具体地点：  San Diego, California, United States 
主办单位：  国际光学和光子学学会 
 
[ 重要日期 ]
摘要截稿日期：  2014-02-03 

[ 会务组联系方式 ]   
联系电话：  +1 360 685 5600 
E-MAIL：  saral@spie.org 
  
会议网站：  http://spie.org/OPO/conferencedetails/polymer-and-molded-glass-optics 
会议背景介绍：  This conference will address three areas:
polymer optics (all areas)
molded glass optics
design and manufacturing discriminators between plastic and glass optical systems.

Papers involving any of these areas will be considered for presentation.

Polymer optics can be found in many aspects of our daily lives. Modern applications are vast and include camera phones, near-to-eye displays, microprojection, panoramic capture systems, biometrics, endoscopy, automotive, and many others. Polymer optics have become increasingly prevalent due to continuously improving manufacturing tolerances, their ability to incorporate mechanical features directly into the optical parts, their ability to scale to high volumes, their low cost relative to that of other technologies and their low mass relative to glass.

Molded glass optics has advanced greatly in the last decade, both to improve quality and to adopt the low-cost manufacturability that had previously been conceded to injection molded polymer optics.

This conference will be dedicated to both polymer optics and molded glass optics, including plastic/glass hybrid optics, with special emphasis on recent developments in the field.
 
征文范围及要求：  We welcome papers describing advances in any aspect of polymer optics, particularly within the following seven areas:
developments that exemplify the strengths of polymer optics, such as extreme asphericity, low cost, low weight, high volume production, integration of functional mechanical features, tolerance to impact and strain, etc...
developments that challenge the traditional roadblocks for polymer optics, such as thermal instability, structural instability, birefringence, haze, difficulty in broad spectrum color correction, etc...
advances in ultra-precision diamond turning, molding, mold-making and tooling, coating, or assembly
advances in polymer optics materials
advances in metrology (surface, part, or system)
advances/applications of unique surface geometries (i.e., aspheres, toroids, freeform optics, microstructures, etc...)
advanced tolerancing for unique surface geometries and high volumes
novel applications of polymers
business/market trends for polymer optics.

We also welcome papers describing advances in any aspect of molded glass optics, particularly including:
developments that highlight the strengths of glass optics, such as thermal tolerance, CTE, birefringence, high compressive strength, range of optical properties, etc...
advances in new molding materials and processes
novel applications of molded glass optics
business/market trends for molded optics and feedstocks.

Additionally, we plan sessions to look at material choices for specific designs when deciding between glass and polymer materials. The material discriminators may be manufacturability, cost, performance or other. Such designs may include:
plastics vs. glass for precision optics and refractive optics
plastics vs. glass for transmissive and large-areas, including architectural and automotive applications
plastics vs. glass for solar applications.