The growing use of optical lenses in optical integrated circuits has necessitated finding a better, more cost-effective way of producing them. We have succeeded in developing a method of producing high-quality micro lenses on soda-lime grass plates by combining laser annealing and ion-exchange; The method is referred to as a “Laser Ion-Exchange Method”. The use of this technique makes it increase the refractive indexes on both sides of a soda-lime glass plate to create an optical lens. The upper surface of the glass is annealed by CO
2 laser beam irradiation while the underside is subjected to ion-exchange between Na
+ of the glass and K
+ of KNO
3 of an immersion bath. This method was applied to producing circular, non-circular, linear and array micro-lenses.
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