本世紀以來，塑膠光學鏡片廣泛運用於智慧型手機產品，鏡頭生產量與日俱增，射出成型鏡片具有適合量產及低成本之優勢，成為塑膠光學鏡片的主要生產方式。在射出成型的過程中，光學高分子在歷經快速液固相變化冷卻之影響，鏡片之收縮、翹曲及雙折射等瑕疵成為鏡片之重要生產問題；因收縮與翹曲會影響鏡片之尺寸精度，而雙折射造成鏡片光學品質之大幅下降，現今改善光學鏡片之品品質與良率，是鏡片生產廠商所面臨的最大挑戰。
鏡片於射出成型過程中，保留下流動殘留應力與熱殘留應力，主因高分子受到機械及熱應力作用；在射出之充填及保壓過程時，高分子因流動應力而拉伸展延，卻因黏彈特性產生應力記憶效應，在分子尚未鬆弛即被固化凍結，致鏡片內部形成殘流應力；同時熔融態高分子於接觸低溫模壁，冷卻速度過高而形成內張外壓的熱應力，此兩反差應力於鏡片形成最終翹曲變形。
塑膠光學鏡片上之殘留應力影響最終之成像品質，本文採用一模兩穴的平凸實驗光學鏡片模具，以COP Zeonex480R塑料進行成型實驗，再以夏克-哈特曼波前感測器量測鏡片之成像光程差，將影響波前像差之兩大因子進行深入分析。再以電腦輔助工程模流軟體進行模擬分析，輔以成型後實驗鏡片數據比對應力及翹曲現象，藉以驗證模流分析之準確性，再將模流分析結果之機械性質轉換為幾何光學參數導入光學設計分析軟體，可計算成形鏡片之預測光程差，最終與實驗量測數據進行比較及驗證，並將光程差以傅氏轉換得出調制傳遞函數，做為鏡片光學檢測之成像品質成果。

In this century, the optical plastic lenses have been widely used in smart phones with increasing production volume. Today, injection molding process has become the major production method due to the advantage of mass-production and lower costs. However, the polymeric materials would experience fast liquid-solid phase change due to rapid cooling during the process and exhibit consequential and dominant optical defects, i.e. post-shrinkage, birefringence and refractive index inhomogeneity. Now, all plastic lens manufacturers are facing the biggest challenges since quality improvements in circumventing all the defects in the lenses. In the process, the polymeric melt is injected via a runner system and gates into a mold, and then packed under high pressure until cooled to a solid part; hence, the melt has an thermo-mechanical history with visco-elastic effects. Consequently, the process introduces residual stresses and polymer orientation into the molded lenses which exhibit residual birefringence, lens warpage and shrinkage. The residual stresses would eventually affect the image quality of the injection molded lenses.
In this thesis, a plano-convex lens molded with COP, ZEONEX 480R are used in the experiments. The wavefront measurement systems based on Shack-Hartmann sensor are adopted for verifications of factors influencing the image quality including surface deviations and birefringence. Then, CAE simulations based on commercial FEM predict stresses and warpage of the optical lens, and transforms the mechanical properties into the optical qualities so that wavefront aberrations could be calculated and verified. Finally, Optical performances such as PSF, MTF and Strehl Ratio are calculated based on the FFT of wavefront functions for serving the final optical quality.

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