Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a target capsule apparatus for holding a fuel. In some embodiments the target capsule may be used to hold a fuel used in an inertial confinement fusion power plant. In one embodiment the apparatus may have an additively manufactured outer shell having an inner surface, and an interior area of the outer shell forms a volume adapted to contain the fuel. The inner surface may have a varying density which decreases in a radially inward direction towards an axial center of the outer shell.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for performing laser processing. In one embodiment the system has an electronic control system and a laser processing subsystem. The laser processing subsystem has at least one laser for generating a laser beam and at least one spatial light modulator (SLM). The SLM has a plurality of pixels and generates a patterned light beam, using the laser beam, to carry out a manufacturing or material processing operation. A non-imaging metalens array is used which has a plurality of independent metalens units, each one or more being uniquely associated with one or more pixels of the SLM. The metalens array creates focal light points in accordance with the patterned light beam to at least one of manufacture a part in an additive or subtractive manufacturing process, an 3D printing process or a process or act on a material.

Abstract: A method, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes, during performance of an additive manufacturing process that includes photocuring of a resin, monitoring light output generated by a fluorophore in the resin that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. The method also includes outputting an indication of an extent of photocuring based on the monitored light output. The method also includes adjusting in real time a parameter of the additive manufacturing process based on the output indication. A method, in accordance with another aspect of the present invention, includes analyzing at least one mechanical property of a polymeric structure formed by an additive manufacturing process based on light output generated by a fluorophore in the structure.

Abstract: In one general embodiment, a method includes, during performance of an additive manufacturing process that includes photocuring of a resin, monitoring light output generated by a fluorophore in the resin that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. An indication of an extent of photocuring is output based on the monitored light output. In another general embodiment, a resin for additive manufacturing includes molecules configured for photopolymerization and/or photocuring, the molecules being selected from the group consisting of monomers, oligomers, and polymers; a photoinitiator; and a fluorophore that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. The fluorophore is present in an amount of at least 0.00005 wt % relative to a total weight of the resin. In yet another general embodiment, a three-dimensional encrypted structure includes a fluorophore that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior.

Abstract: In one general embodiment, a method includes, during performance of an additive manufacturing process that includes photocuring of a resin, monitoring light output generated by a fluorophore in the resin that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. An indication of an extent of photocuring is output based on the monitored light output. In another general embodiment, a resin for additive manufacturing includes molecules configured for photopolymerization and/or photocuring, the molecules being selected from the group consisting of monomers, oligomers, and polymers; a photoinitiator; and a fluorophore that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior. The fluorophore is present in an amount of at least 0.00005 wt % relative to a total weight of the resin. In yet another general embodiment, a three-dimensional encrypted structure includes a fluorophore that exhibits aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior.

Abstract: A metalens array is disclosed for controllably modifying a phase of a wavefront of an optical beam. The metalens array may have a substrate having at least first and second metalens unit cells, and forming a single integrated structure with no stitching being required of the first and second metalens unit cells. The first metalens unit cell has a first plurality of nanoscale features and is configured to modify a phase of a first portion of a wavefront of an optical signal incident thereon in accordance with a first predetermined phase pattern to create at least one first focal voxel within an image plane. The second metalens unit cell has a second plurality of nanoscale features configured to modify the phase of a second portion of the wavefront of the optical signal incident thereon, in accordance with a second predetermined phase pattern, to simultaneously create at least one second focal voxel within the image plane. Each metalens unit cell also has an overall diameter of no more than about 200 microns.

Abstract: A vertical ion trap include at least four RF electrodes on a substrate, the RF electrodes extending up from the substrate, a region between the electrodes forming the vertical ion trap, and at least two direct current electrodes adjacent the RF electrodes and the vertical ion trap. A horizontal ion traps includes a substrate, the substrate having a hole, at least one RF electrodes raised above the substrate and offset from each other across the hole, the RF electrodes, and at least one DC electrode corresponding to each RF electrode, the DC electrodes raised above the substrate. A method of forming an ion trap includes forming three-dimensional structures on a substrate in a curable polymer using two-photon polymerization direct laser writing, metalizing the three-dimensional structures to form RF electrodes, and forming direct current electrodes at least partially on the substrate.

Abstract: A metalens array is disclosed for controllably modifying a phase of a wavefront of an optical beam. The metalens array may have a substrate having at least first and second metalens unit cells, and forming a single integrated structure with no stitching being required of the first and second metalens unit cells. The first metalens unit cell has a first plurality of nanoscale features and is configured to modify a phase of a first portion of a wavefront of an optical signal incident thereon in accordance with a first predetermined phase pattern to create at least one first focal voxel within an image plane. The second metalens unit cell has a second plurality of nanoscale features configured to modify the phase of a second portion of the wavefront of the optical signal incident thereon, in accordance with a second predetermined phase pattern, to simultaneously create at least one second focal voxel within the image plane. Each metalens unit cell also has an overall diameter of no more than about 200 microns.