Title: Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Lenses and Applications
Authors: Lin, Yi-Hsin
Chen, Hung-Shan
Chen, Ming-Syuan
交大名義發表
光電工程學系
National Chiao Tung University
Department of Photonics
Keywords: Liquid crystal lenses;tunable focusing properties;LC lenses
Issue Date: 13-Jun-2014
Abstract: Electrically tunable liquid crystal (LC) lenses have been studied for over 30years. Three main problems of LC lenses hinder the applications: 1) the paradox between the response time and tunable focusing range, 2) polarization dependency, and 3) large aperture size for ophthalmic lenses. In this paper, we introduce the two mode switching method of the LC lenses to solve the paradox of the LC lenses. The basic optical principles for designing polarization independent LC lenses are discussed and several polarizer-free LC lenses we developed are reviewed. Several applications of LC lenses are also introduced, including auto-focusing imaging systems, auto-focusing projection systems, optical zoom systems, endoscopic systems, solar cells, ophthalmic lenses for myopia-presbyopia.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2014.918243
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/25237
ISSN: 1542-1406
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2014.918243
Journal: MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume: 596
Issue: 1
Begin Page: 12
End Page: 21
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