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Molded Plastic Optics
Michael Schaub
4.1 Introduction
Molded plastic optics are currently utilized in a wide variety of elds. Once
relegated by both quality and perception to low-end products such as toys,
their use has greatly expanded in the past few decades. The increase in
the use, quality, and capability of molded plastic optics has been driven by
improvements in both plastic optic materials and the equipment used to pro-
duce molded optics from them. Additionally, the growing reliance on optical
technologies has provided markets and applications that did not previously
exist for mold ...