Single-View Holographic Volumetric 3D Printing with Coupled Differentiable Wave-Optical and Photochemical Optimization

Felix Wechsler, Riccardo Rizzo, Christophe Moser

EPFL · SIGGRAPH (Journal Track) · doi.org/10.1145/3811332

Abstract

Volumetric additive manufacturing promises near-instantaneous fabrication of 3D objects, yet achieving high fidelity at the micro-scale remains challenging due to the complex interplay between optical diffraction and chemical effects.

We present Single-View Holographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (SHVAM), a mechanically static system that shapes volumetric dose distributions using time-multiplexed, phase-only holograms projected from a single optical axis. To achieve high resolution with SHVAM, we formulate hologram synthesis as a coupled inverse problem, integrating a differentiable wave-optical forward model with a simplified photochemical model that explicitly captures inhibitor diffusion and non-linear dose response.

Optimizing hologram sequences under these coupled constraints allows us to pre-compensate for chemical blur, yielding higher print fidelity than optical-only optimization. We demonstrate the efficacy of SHVAM by fabricating simple 2D and 3D structures with lateral feature sizes of approximately 10 µm within a 0.8 mm × 0.8 mm × 3 mm volume in seconds.

BibTeX

@article{SHVAM,
author = {Wechsler, Felix and Rizzo, Riccardo and Moser, Christophe},
title = {Single-View Holographic Volumetric 3D Printing with Coupled Differentiable Wave-Optical and Photochemical Optimization},
year = {2026},
issue_date = {July 2026},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {45},
number = {4},
issn = {0730-0301},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3811332},
doi = {10.1145/3811332},
journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
month = jul,
articleno = {38},
numpages = {16}
}