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Engineering insights on 3D glass microfabrication for quantum, photonics, medtech and life sciences

Engineering articles from the FEMTOPRINT team on femtosecond laser selective etching (SLE) of fused silica and other glasses: design rules, packaging bottlenecks, and what changes when optics, fluidics and mechanics are built into a single piece of glass. Articles are grouped by application, with links to the related FEMTOPRINT application pages.

Quantum & ion traps

Related applications: Quantum · Ion Traps · 3D Ion Traps · Photonic Connectivity

• Photonic Integration in Ion Trap Chips: Solving the Optical Access Bottleneck
• Monolithic Ion Trap in Fused Silica: How One Block of Glass Took Fabrication Off the Suspect List
• The Hidden Bottleneck in Quantum Tech: Is it Physics or the Packaging?
• Photonic Connectivity for Glass Ion Traps: Waveguides and Fiber Optics Fabricated in One Piece
• Why Quantum Hardware Scaling Depends on Glass: Ion Traps, Photonic Interconnects, and Monolithic Fused Silica
• Is the Future of Quantum Written in Glass?

Photonics, co-packaged optics & micro-optics

Related applications: Photonics · Photonics for AI · Glass Fiber Ferrules · Glass Waveguides · Optics

• How CTOs Are Recovering the Hidden Optical Link Budget in AI-Scale Co-Packaged Optics (CPO)
• The Fiber-to-Chip Bottleneck Nobody's Talking About
• How Ultrafast Laser 3D Glass Microfabrication Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage in Photonics
• Why 90% of Glass Micro-Optical Prototypes Fail at Scaling (and How DFM Fixes It)
• The Future of AI is Photonic: Overcoming the Optical Connectivity Bottleneck

MedTech microdevices

Related applications: Medtech · Glass Microfabrication · Hermetic Sealing · Microfluidic Biosensor

• When the Interface Becomes the Challenge: 3D Glass Microfabrication for MedTech Microdevices
• MRI-Safe Implants: Why 3D Glass Microfabrication Is Replacing Metal
• 5 Reasons Why Fused Silica Is Replacing Polymers in Next-Gen MedTech

Life sciences & glass microfluidics

Related applications: Life Sciences · Drug Discovery and Therapeutics · Diagnostics · Bio-Chemical Sensing

• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Prototyping: Why Polymer Microfluidic Chips Are Failing Your Data
• Glass: The Gold Standard in Microfluidics
• How 3D Glass Microfluidics Is Revolutionizing Drug Discovery: From Hours to Seconds
• The 3D Glass Revolution: Redefining Precision in Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS)

Glass microfabrication, DFM & CDMO

Related applications: Technology · Contract Development · Contract Manufacturing · Rapid Prototyping

• 5 Questions CTOs Ask Us About Precision Glass Microfabrication
• Trusted CDMO with Swiss Precision: How Specification Holding Works at Volume
• Single-Source Glass Microfabrication: Holding the Spec from Prototype to Volume
• Monolithic Glass Micro-Engineering: The Future of Deep Space Instrumentation
• The Microscopic Frontier: Unveiling the Art of µManufacturing in Glass

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