WELCOME TO ANFF OPTOFAB ADELAIDE
The Australian National Fabrication Facility OptoFab hub at the Adelaide University.
Optofab Adelaide offers fabrication services for custom optical glass with unique properties, extrusion capabilities for specialised preforms for optical fibres, and fibre drawing capabilities for glass, silica, and polymers, including microstructured fibres.
Adelaide has a rare combination of glass science and fibre fabrication research facilities and expertise, which has enabled the realisation of fibres with unique and novel properties. Optofab Adelaide also provides complex and precise machining services. Its additive and subtractive manufacturing capabilities allow the creation of glass, polymer and high-strength metal parts with complex shapes and geometries tailored to specific performance requirements.
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We offer services to both academics and industry. If you are writing a paper and have used our facility, please make sure to acknowledge us. This not only helps us track the impact of our work but also highlights the importance of national fabrication facilities like ours.
ANFF Acknowledgement
Optofab Adelaide facilities are an integral part of the Optofab Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility.
All users of ANFF equipment and products made using ANFF capabilities are asked to acknowledge ANFF in papers as follows:
"This work was performed in part at the University of Adelaide OptoFab hub of the Australian National Fabrication Facility utilising Commonwealth and SA State Government funding."