Project description
Shaping the future of optics with light
High-performance optical manufacturing remains costly and waste-intensive, especially when scaling customised diffractive optics. The EIC-funded HoloMorPh project aims to introduce an end-to-end production platform for ready-to-use diffractive optical elements. It will deliver new, tailor-made light-sensitive materials combined with meta-optics enhanced holography, enabling a process whereby the manufacturing tool is the light itself. This approach uses real-time all-optical metrology, AI and a distributed cloud-based software to refine microstructured surfaces as they are being created. The result is a highly efficient, compact, closed-loop manufacturing unit that can produce fixed or tuneable optical elements on demand. Applied in areas such as augmented reality, imaging, sensing and displays, it will signal a shift towards customised lightweight hardware produced with reduced environmental footprint and cost.
Objective
The HoloMorPh consortium will develop the first sustainable, direct, closed-loop holo-lithographic platform that uses only light to fabricate, refine, and reversibly or stably lock-in ready-to-use planar photonic components. These miniaturized, high-performance optical elements, realized as micro- and nanostructured surfaces, can surpass traditional glass optics, while enabling ultra-compact, lightweight devices that drastically reduce footprint and complexity of the entire optical system. They promise a transformative impact on display technologies, optical imaging, and sensing. However, mass-producing high-quality planar photonic components remains limited by current multi-step lithographic processes that are inefficient, costly, and environmentally burdensome.
HoloMorPh will overcome these challenges by combining innovations in digital holography, structuring-enhancing meta-optics, and light-responsive materials. The “holomorphing” process will include automatic self-optimization of surface geometries via a real-time feedback loop that integrates digital holographic microscopy as the in-loop metrology sensor, artificial intelligence, and a distributed cloud-based network to enable tuning of the ready-to-use optical elements while they form. HoloMorPh’s interdisciplinary approach leverages the complementary expertise of the team in materials chemistry, holography, meta-optics, machine learning, cloud computing, optical engineering, and environmental science to deliver customizable photonic components for augmented reality, beam shaping, and adaptive optics.
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- natural sciences chemical sciences physical chemistry photochemistry
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies microtechnology
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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80138 Napoli
Italy
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