Electrically tunable lens based on a dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 4576-4582

  Pishnyak, Oleg ^a   Sato, Susumu ^b   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SWITCHING; TORQUE;

ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; ELECTRODE STRUCTURE; PLANAR STATE; VARIABLE OPTICAL LENS;

LENSES;

EID: 33746164445     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004576     Document Type: Article

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